La Mothe Le Vayer : Lettre sur la comedie de l'imposteur /

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Imprint:Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2014.
Description:170 pages ; 22 cm.
Language:English
French
Series:Durham modern languages series. FT ; 4
Durham modern languages series. FT ; 4.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10075996
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Other authors / contributors:McBride, Robert, 1941- editor.
ISBN:9780719085932
0719085934 (pbk.)
Notes:Originally published: Durham, England : University of Durham, 1994.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction and critical material in English with original text in French.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • eveolution of Le Tartuffe up to 1667
  • Presentation and structure of the letter
  • Dramaturgy and characterisation in L'Imposteur as seen by the letter
  • The psychology of religious hypocrisy
  • Religion and the theatre in the seventeenth century
  • The nature and eprception of the ridiculous
  • Stylistic features of the letter
  • History of the acceptance of the letter
  • Editions of the letter
  • Works consulted
  • Editor's note
  • Notes to introduction