Early life and beginnings in theatre

Such failures were rare and eclipsed by successes greater than the Paris theatre had known. The delicate portrayal in this girl of an awakening temperament, all the stronger for its absence of convention, is a marvel of comedy. From onward the Palais-Royal theatre was shared with Italian actors, each company taking three playing days in each week. He also wrote plays that were privately commissioned and thus first performed elsewhere: There were three children of the marriage; only a daughter survived to maturity. He had to wait five years and risk the livelihood of his actors before his reward, which proved to be the greatest success of his career.

Most men would surely have given up the struggle: It is a priceless example of his art. The central character, Dom Juan, carries the aristocratic principle to its extreme by disclaiming all types of obligation, to either parents or doctors or tradesmen or God. Yet he assumes that others will fulfill their obligations to him. His servant, Sganarelle, is imagined as his opposite in every point—earthy, timorous, superstitious. He made up for lack of authors by writing more plays himself.

He could never be sure of either actors or authors. Pensions were often promised and not paid. The court wanted more light plays than great works. The receipts of his theatre were uncertain and fluctuating.

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To meet the cumulative misfortunes of his own illness, the closing of the theatre for seven weeks upon the death of the Queen Mother, and the proscription of Tartuffe and Dom Juan , he wrote five plays in one season — In the preceding season, however, Le Misanthrope , almost from the start, was treated as a masterpiece by discerning playgoers, if not by the entire public. The structure of the play is as simple as it is poetic. A five-act version of Tartuffe was played in , but once only: His miser is a living paradox , inhuman in his worship of money, all too human in his need of respect and affection.

In breathtaking scenes his mania is made to suggest cruelty, pathological loneliness, even insanity. The play is too stark for those who expect laughter from comedy; Goethe started the dubious fashion of calling it tragic.

Scandals and successes

The basic comic suggestion is one of absurdity and incongruity rather than of gaiety. It centres on a fool, who admits his folly while suggesting that wisdom would not help him because, if things in fact go against us, it is pointless to be wise. As it happens, he is in the right, but he can never prove it. The subject of the play is trivial, the suggestion is limitless; it sketches a new range of comedy altogether. In permission was somehow obtained, and the long run of Tartuffe at last began.

More than 60 performances were given that year alone. Of the three versions of the play, only the last has survived; the first presented in three acts played before the king in probably portrayed a pious crook so firmly established in a bourgeois household that the master promises him his daughter and disinherits his son. At the time, it was common for lay directors of conscience to be placed in families to reprove and reform conduct.

The final version contains two seduction scenes and a shift of interest to the comic paradox in Tartuffe himself, posing as an inhuman ascetic while by nature he is an all-too-human lecher. It is difficult to think of a theme more likely to offend pious minds. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme treated a contemporary theme—social climbing among the bourgeois, or upper middle class—but it is perhaps the least dated of all his comedies.

The protagonist Jourdain, rather than being an unpleasant sycophant , is as delightful as he is fatuous, as genuine as he is naive; his folly is embedded in a bountiful disposition , which he of course despises. It is a powerful play in its delineation of medical jargon and professionalism, in the fatuity of a would-be doctor with learning and no sense, in the normality of the young and sensible lovers, as opposed to the superstition , greed, and charlatanry of other characters. He aspired to be a tragic actor, but contemporary taste was against him.

His public seemed to favour a tragic style that was pompous, with ranting and roaring, strutting and chanting. Offstage he was neither a great talker nor particularly merry, but he would mime and copy speech to the life. He had the tireless energy of the actor. He was always ready to make a scene out of an incident, to put himself on a stage. Citations are based on reference standards. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study.

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Certuni invitano la fidanzaa a teatro, ma vuoi mettere la galanteria di offrire un'autopsia? Nei vostri grandi medici ci sono due persone diverse, una per i discorsi e l'altra per i fatti. Secondo lui, di cosa siete malato? Che cosa vi sentite?

Ogni tanto, mal di testa. Talvolta mi pare di avere un velo davanti agli occhi.

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Ho talvolta dolori al cuore. Accuso anche una certa stanchezza in tutte le membra. E qualche volta mi prendono dolori al ventre, come se fossere coliche. Vi piace bere un po' di vino? Vi prende un certo torpore dopo il pasto e vi fa piacere schiacciare un sonnellino? I polmoni, i polmoni, vi dico.


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I laughed a lot! Toinette is a very funny character. E' la messa in scena delle manie ipocondriache di Argante circondato da persone ipocrite e che ne se approfittano delle sue paure e fissazioni: Dovremmo avere tutti una Tonietta che ci permetta di aprire gli occhi! I much prefer the other translated title of Hypochondriac, as that's what it's really about The plot feels very classical--confused identities, lying servants, etc. I can't imagine how the quick changes Toinette has to do could be done but that's a director's headache to deal with.

I honestly skipped both interludes, especially the final one which is in complete gibberish "This piece is composed of a mixture of dog-Latin, French But as a simple project of reading this play, I didn't enjoy it. It was really hard to follow due to the language which is always harder to read than to watch, plus I'm probably out of practice.

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