num_pages: 220
description: Polsky (a 2002 doctoral graduate and specialist in the theater and literature of 17th century France ) writes that his study was born of a desire to disentangle modern performance theory from notions that would have been familiar to the playwright/actor himself and to determine what, if anything, in the Moliéresque repertoire can be considered truly "performative." In considering Molière in conjunction with machines both literal and metaphorical, he reminds readers of the satirist's radicality in his own time while warning them away from the current revisionist bent of directors to stage postmodern versions of Molière's works that look no further than the words on the page. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: The Comic Machine, the Narrative Machine, and the Political Machine in the Works of Moliere
titlecomplete: The Comic Machine, the Narrative Machine, and the Political Machine in the Works of Moliere (Studies in French Literature, 69)
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr