FRENCH LITERATURE
Oral exam
Variations of the comic canon in the theater of Molière.
The course intends to study some great figures and some categories of characters of the Molierian theater, from the serious to the farcical: Dom Juan, Sganarelle, Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, Alceste, Argan and the the doctors.
Analysis of Molière's theatrical texts: Le Festin de Pierre [Dom Juan] (1665), L'Amour médecin (1665), Le Misanthrope (1666), Monsieur de Pourceaugnac (1669), Le Malade imaginaire (1673).
Le Festin de Pierre [Dom Juan] (1665; non censured ed. 1683)
L'Amour médecin (1665)
Le Misanthrope (1666)
Monsieur de Pourceaugnac (1669)
Le Malade imaginaire (1673).
Any edition with French text and translation opposite.
For non-attending students, the study of the text is foreseen: Ryngaert Jean-Pierre Introduction à lanalyse du Théâtre, Paris, Bordas, 1991 (latest reprint available).
Lessons
The program for students attending will include only a portion of that shown and will be shown in class.
Jean-Pierre Ryngaert, L'analisi del testo teatrale, translation by Letizia Volpini, Roma, Audino, 2006.