Marmontel and Demoustier, Le Misanthrope corrigé
Two Eighteenth-Century Sequels to Molière’s ‘Le Misanthrope’
Edited by Joseph Harris
Click cover to enlarge Buy paperback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Modern Humanities Research Association 31 May 2019 • 146pp ISBN: 978-1-781887-53-0 (paperback) • RRP £14.99, $19.99, €17.99 ISBN: 978-1-781887-54-7 (JSTOR ebook) Sample: Google Books • Access online: Books@JSTOR At the end of Molière’s masterpiece Le Misanthrope (1666), the irascible anti-hero Alceste storms off the stage, resolved to spend the rest of his life in a remote wilderness rather than to spend another moment mixing with corrupt Parisian society. Molière’s comedy is thus, in an important sense, unfinished, and various writers over the centuries, from Fabre d’Églantine in the eighteenth century to David Ives in the twenty-first, have written sequels – works that aim simultaneously to exploit the popularity of the original play, to resolve its narrative, and to lay to rest some of its more troubling implications about society. This volume brings together two of the first sequels. As their titles imply, both Jean-François Marmontel’s ‘moral tale’ Le Misanthrope corrigé (1765) and its dramatic adaptation, Charles-Albert Demoustier’s three-act verse comedy Alceste à la campagne, ou le Misanthrope corrigé (c.1790), follow the gradual rehabilitation of Molière’s bad-tempered misanthrope. By tracing the two plays’ complex relationships to each other and to Molière’s original comedy, this critical edition situates them both in the context of Molière reception in the Enlightenment, and particularly in relation to Marmontel’s debates with Jean-Jacques Rousseau about the ethics and aesthetics of Molière’s original play. Joseph Harris is reader in Early Modern Studies at Royal Holloway University of London.
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Bibliography entry: Harris, Joseph (ed.), Marmontel and Demoustier, Le Misanthrope corrigé: Two Eighteenth-Century Sequels to Molière’s ‘Le Misanthrope’, Critical Texts, 65 (MHRA, 2019) First footnote reference: 35 Marmontel and Demoustier, Le Misanthrope corrigé: Two Eighteenth-Century Sequels to Molière’s ‘Le Misanthrope’, ed. by Joseph Harris, Critical Texts, 65 (MHRA, 2019), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Harris, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Harris, Joseph (ed.). 2019. Marmontel and Demoustier, Le Misanthrope corrigé: Two Eighteenth-Century Sequels to Molière’s ‘Le Misanthrope’, Critical Texts, 65 (MHRA) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Harris 2019: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Harris 2019: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Marmontel-Demoustier-Le-Misanthrope-corrigé www.mhra.org.uk/publications/ct-65 |