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4) Molière
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In the years since Molière's death, succeeding generations have emphasized different aspects of his many-faceted genius. As Gertrud Mander points out in this contemporary reassessment "the king of laughter," our own age seems to be particularly fascinated by such complex character studies as "Tartuffe", "The Misanthrope", and "Don Juan". In addition, we respond with knowing laughter to the comedies -- "The School for Wives", "The Learned Women",...
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The Happy End of Comedy is an analysis of the most necessary of all comic conventions -- the happy ending. The book begins by assuming that the study of the ways three major playwrights brought their works to a close will reveal much about their conception of the artifice of theater and comedy and about their sense of human experience, which informs this artifice. Happy End is thus both a study of the uses and variations on a convention and a definition...
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