Molière

• Published in: Seventeenth-century news Vol. 80; no. 3/4; pp. 153 - 155
• Main Author: Grele, Denis D
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: College Station Seventeenth-Century News 01.10.2022
• Subjects: Dramatists; French literature; Historical text analysis

In order to do so, Donné applies the traditional chronological framework to structure the life of Moliere around the three phases of his life: the first part (entitled "L'Ecole des hommes") retraces his youth with the experience of the Illustre théåtre and his long journey throughout France; the second part ("Le Comique honnete homme") looks at his march to glory when he comes back to Paris and becomes the author of Tartuffe and Dom Juan; and then the last part ("Le Moi imaginaire") examines the maturity and the death of the great man. The second group of sources studied are the various books written by people who knew Moliere directly or heard from people who had known him. [...]taking into account the context, the historical documents-especially in the first part of the book-as well as the dubious information gathered on Moliere, Donné investigates what Moliere himself left us: his plays.