Author: Scott, Virginia
Title: Moliere: A Theatrical Life
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000. orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, ix,333 pp. PAPERBACK. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ In this biography, Virginia Scott locates Molière's life and work in the social, literary and theatrical contexts of the period. She offers a narrative account of his life and an overview of his plays in the wider setting of the development of seventeenth-century French drama. Her research extends from Molière's boyhood and his Jesuit education at the Collège de Clermont, through the beginning of his theatrical career in Paris and as a vagabond actor in the provinces, to his days as a court dramatist under Louis XIV. He was a controversial playwright, striking out against hypocrisy in religion and medicine, and finally a cynical survivor of the literary, cultural, and marital wars. This full-length biography, the first to be written about Molière in English since 1930, will appeal to the general reader as well as specialists in French and Theatre Studies"- Publisher's description.

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