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Course Description

Molière – the stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin – won renown and notoriety during his lifetime in the 17th century, and he is widely regarded as the greatest comedic playwright that France has produced. His plays are funny and full of dramatic tension, but they are also profound. Molière was a keen observer of human foibles – vanity, duplicity, hypocrisy, charlatanism, miserliness, lust, and the mania for control – and the manner in which they alienate us from plain but inconvenient truths. It is impossible not to enjoy the ridicule and the personal shocks to which Molière subjects his characters, which makes it all the more unsettling when we recognize ourselves in them. The joke is always also on us. We will read and discuss seven plays: The School for Wives, The School for Wives Criticized, Tartuffe, Don Juan, The Misanthrope, The Miser and The Hypochondriac.

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