Rivalry and the Disruption of Order in Moliere's Theater

by Koppisch, Michael S.

• ISBN13: 9780838640098
• ISBN10: 0838640095
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Author Biography

Michael S. Koppisch is professor of French at Michigan State University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	9	(4)
Introduction	13	(160)
1. Love and Rivalry: The Ties That Bind	18	(17)
2. Power and Identity: The Method in Arnolphe's Madness	35	(21)
3. Enemy Brothers: The Interdependence of Orgon and Tartuffe	56	(16)
4. "Grand seigneur mechant homme": Dom Juan and the Credo of Conquest	72	(15)
5. The World Turned Upside Down: Rivalry and Ressentiment in Amphitryon	87	(20)
6. Dark Comedy: Disorder and Sacrifice in George Dandin	107	(14)
7. "J'ai découvert que mon père est mon rival": Love, Greed, and Rivalry in L'Avare	121	(19)
8. Impossible Desire: Becoming a Mamamouchi in Le Bourgeois gentilhomme	140	(14)
9. Philosophers and Fools: The World of Les Femmes savantes	154	(19)
10. Doctors and Actors: The Victory of Comedy in Le Malade imaginaire	173	(14)
Notes	187	(19)
Works Cited	206	(5)
Index	211