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"In 1760, the French playwright Charles Palissot de Montenoy wrote Les Philosophes - a scandalous farcical comedy about a group of opportunistic self-styled philosophers. Les Philosophes emerged in the charged historical context of the pamphlet wars surrounding the publication of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, and delivered an oblique but acerbic criticism of the intellectuals of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, including the likes of Diderot and Rousseau. This book presents the first high-quality English translation of the play, including critical apparatus. The translation is based on Olivier Ferret's edition, and renders the text into iambic pentameter to preserve the character of the original. Adaptations are further provided of Ferret's introduction and notes. This masterful and highly accessible translation of Les Philosophes opens up this polemical text to a non-specialist audience. It will be a valuable resource to non-Francophone scholars and students working on the philosophical exchanges of the Enlightenment. Moreover, this translation - the result of a year-long project undertaken by Jessica Goodman with six of her undergraduate French students - expounds the value of collaboration between scholar and student, and, as such, provides a model for other language tutors embarking on translation projects with their students."--Publisher's website.
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Molière, bien sûr. Mais aussi Marivaux et Beaumarchais. Et Corneille, Scarron, Regnard, Lesage, Dancourt, Voltaire... et tant d'autres encore. Tous ces noms témoignent de la variété de la comédie de l'âge classique, de la prodigieuse vitalité d'une forme dramatique qui, à travers incertitudes et querelles, s'est peu à peu constituée comme un genre. Le présent ouvrage retrace l'histoire de ce genre - de sa renaissance humaniste au Siècle des Lumières -, et il propose une analyse des oeuvres qui l'ont illustré. Par le grand nombre de textes théoriques et d'extraits de pièces qu'il donne à lire, il nous plonge dans l'univers de la comédie, nous familiarisant avec les thèmes et les formules diverses qui ont fait d'elle une des formes majeures du théâtre français.
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