The Heirs of Molière: Four French Comedies of the 17th and 18th Centuries

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Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 2003 - Drama - 364 pages

This volume contains four representative French comedies of the period from the death of Molière to the French Revolution: Jean-François Regnard's The Absent-Minded Lover, Philippe Néricault Destouches's The Conceited Count, Pierre Nivelle De La Chaussée's The Fashionable Prejudice, and Jean-Louis Laya's The Friend of the Laws.

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Contents

THE CONCEITED COUNT
89
THE FASHIONABLE PREJUDICE
199
THE FRIEND OF THE LAWS
287
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About the author (2003)

Marvin Carlson is Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor of Theater and Comparative Literature, City University of New York.

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