The author examines comedies based on a structure first used by Menander in the fourth century B.C. and brought to its precise formulations and brilliance by Marivaux in the eighteenth century A.D.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-173) and index
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- CaOOCEL
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- 842/.4/0917
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0888640188 9781459304468
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- PQ566
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- G7 1977eb
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- 1 electronic text (viii, 201 p.)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Contents 5
- Preface 7
- Chapter I: The Formula: Structure and Statistics 11
- Chapter II: Sources and Channels 21
- Menander and Greek New Comedy 22
- Plautus 25
- Terence 28
- Commedia umanistica 32
- Commedia erudita 33
- Commedia dell 'arte 34
- French Renaissance Comedy 35
- Chapter III: Towards F in France, 1630-1659 37
- Trends and Statistics 38
- Corneille 38
- The Emergence of Valet and Soubrette Types 41
- Some Notable Plays of the 1640s and 1650s 43
- Chapter IV: Molière and his Contemporaries 49
- Molière 50
- The Contemporaries of Molière 77
- Chapter V: The Conscious Exploitation of F 85
- Comedy of Manners 87
- Dancourt 91
- The Ancien Théâtre Italien 100
- Comedy of Character 108
- Regnard, Dufresny, Lesage 111
- Moralizing and Sentimental Comedy 118
- Chapter VI: Marivaux and his Contemporaries 1715-1760 125
- Marivaux 127
- Autreau 141
- De Lisle de la Drévetière 142
- Some Practitioners of F 145
- Comedy of Character 148
- Voltaire 152
- Chapter VII: The Dissolution of F 155
- Hypertrophy of F 157
- Erosion of the Servant Level 158
- Problems of Conjugal and Family Life 162
- F after 1760 163
- Conclusion 169
- Notes 173
- Bibliography 181
- List of Comedies Considered, 1660-1759 183
- Index 208
- A 208
- B 208
- C 208
- D 209
- E 209
- F 209
- G 209
- H 210
- I 210
- J 210
- K 210
- L 210
- M 210
- N 210
- P 210
- Q 211
- R 211
- S 211
- T 211
- U 211
- V 211
- W 211
