Women in Molière’s Comedies - How Little Do You Know a Woman’s Heart!

The book proposes a new reading of Molière's classical comedies, focused on a reassessment of his woman figures, who were hitherto surprisingly neglected and underrated. Rereading his work through a feminine lens sheds new light on the whole of his magnificent comedic enterprise.

List of contents

1. Where are women in Molière's comedies?
2. Can Molière be accused of misogyny? Comedies about women
3. Agnès: The dramaturgy of liberation
4. Women facing Tartuffe
5. Célimène, an Independent Woman
6. Women and Don Juan
Conclusion

About the author

Diana Koloini is a dramaturge and theater scholar based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, with a 30-year career in theater, most of it in the Slovene National Theatre Drama Ljubljana.

Summary

The book proposes a new reading of Molière’s classical comedies, focused on a reassessment of his woman figures, who were hitherto surprisingly neglected and underrated. Rereading his work through a feminine lens sheds new light on the whole of his magnificent comedic enterprise.

Product details

• Authors: Diana Koloini
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032578057
• ISBN: 978-1-03-257805-7
• No. of pages: 178
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Routledge Studies in French and Francophone Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; France, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights