Molière A Theatrical Life Scott Hardback Cambridge University Press

MolireA Theatrical Life\nAuthor(s): Virginia Scott\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521782814, 978-0521782814\nSynopsis\nIn this biography, first published in 2000, Virginia Scott locates Molire'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 Molire's boyhood and his Jesuit education at the Collge 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 will appeal to the general reader as well as s.