Professor Jan Clarke jan.clarke@durham.ac.uk
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After Molière (1673–1689)
Clarke, Jan
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Abstract
Molière was, above all, a man of the theatre: an actor and administrator as well his company’s chief playwright, his death in 1673 was a blow from which many thought his company would not recover. This article examines the fifteen or so years following his death to determine how his immediate successors overcame the difficulties his death presented in each of these three areas. Above all, we see them struggling to protect his works from the danger of over-familiarity, while casting round to find new comic authors to replace him (including from among their own number). And in so doing, they almost coincidentally laid the foundations of the venerable institution we know today as the ‘Maison de Molière’.
Citation
Clarke, J. (2022). After Molière (1673–1689). Forum for Modern Language Studies, 58(3), 297-311. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqac037
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | Aug 29, 2022 |
Publication Date | 2022-07 |
Deposit Date | Dec 5, 2022 |
Publicly Available Date | Aug 1, 2024 |
Journal | Forum for modern language studies |
Print ISSN | 0015-8518 |
Electronic ISSN | 1471-6860 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 58 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 297-311 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqac037 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1185768 |
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This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Forum for Modern Language Studies following peer review. The version of record: Clarke, Jan (2022). After Molière (1673–1689). Forum for Modern Language Studies 58(3): 297-311 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqac037
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