Intruders in the play world : the dynamics of gender in Molière's comedies /
Lalande, Roxanne Decker,1950-
Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
c1996.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-224) and index.
Introduction: comic theory and the delineation of ludic space -- L'Avare: a game of give-and-take -- Dom Juan: of myth and men -- L'Ecole des femmes: marriage and the laws of chance -- Le Bourgeois gentilhomme: the interrupted banquet -- Le Tartuffe: the transference of homoerotic desire -- Le Misanthrope: strategies of marginality and centrality -- Le Malade imaginaire: the symbolic and the mimetic -- Conclusion: Les Femmes savantes and the problem of carnal knowledge.
Molière, 1622-1673
Sex role in literature.
Women in literature.