FRENCH LITERATURE
Oral exam
Molière in the storm.
The course intends to investigate the ideological implications of the representation of different human figures, emblematic representatives of social vices or distortions, and certain institutions holding some power in Molière's theatre.
The course aims to analyze some comedies that, over the course of twenty years, have generated lively debates, violent positions, severe condemnations for the ideological positions that the great playwright has expressed and staged in his theatrical creations.
Primary bibliography (the works analyzed in class for attending students will be indicated at the beginning of the lessons):
- L’École des Femmes (1662)
- Tartuffe ou L’Imposteur (1664-1669)
- Don Juan ou Le Festin de Pierre (1665)
- L’Amour médecin (1666)
- Monsieur de Pourceaugnac (1669)
- Le Malade imaginaire (1673)
Any edition with French text and translation opposite.
Critical bibliography:
- Giorgio SALE, La nominazione di dotti, filosofi, medici e sapienti nelle commedie di Molière, Pisa, Edizioni ETS, Collana di studi «Nominatio», 2022.
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.