1st Edition
Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy
By Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde
Copyright 2017
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
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The first book-length study devoted to this topic, Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy offers an important contribution to scholarship on the theatre as well as on early modern attitudes in France, specifically on the subject of lying and deception. Unusually for a scholarly work on seventeenth-century theatre, it is particularly alert to plays as performed... Read more
Introduction
1. Perspectives on Lying
1.1 Perspectives
1.2 The Figure of the Liar on Stage
1.3 Deception on Stage
2. Fantastical Lies: the Figure of the Braggart Soldier
3. Moliere's Dom Juan: the Evolution of the Character
4. The Parasitical Nature of Lying: a Study of Le Tartuffe
5. Mendacity and Metamorphosis: the Case of Benserade's Iphis et Iante
Conclusion
Biography
Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde completed a Junior Research Fellowship at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, United Kingdom and is currently a Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, United States of America.
