Molière A Theatrical Life |
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| Author:
| Scott, Virginia |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-01238-6 |
| Publication Date: | May 2002 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $45.99 |
Book Description:
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Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière, is an important figure in European literature and drama, whose plays are still taught and performed throughout the world. Locating his life and work in the social, literary and theatrical contexts of the period, Virginia Scott offers a narrative account of Molière's life and an overview of his plays in the wider setting of the development of seventeenth-century French drama. This full-length biography, the first to be written about Molière in...
More DescriptionJean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière, is an important figure in European literature and drama, whose plays are still taught and performed throughout the world. Locating his life and work in the social, literary and theatrical contexts of the period, Virginia Scott offers a narrative account of Molière's life and an overview of his plays in the wider setting of the development of seventeenth-century French drama. This full-length biography, the first to be written about Molière in English since 1930, will appeal to the general reader as well as the specialist.