Vaux-le-Vicomte: Fouquet’s Rise and Fall
Vaux-le-Vicomte: Nicolas Fouquet’s Castle Nicolas Fouquet, by Sébastien Bourdon (Musée national du château de Versailles) (Photo credit: Larousse) Nicolas Fouquet The story of the “City Rat and...
View ArticleThe Bourgeois
Molière’s Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Edmond Geoffroy, 1670 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Molière‘s (15 January 1722 – February 1773) Bourgeois gentilhomme, a five-act comedy, premièred on 14 October...
View ArticleMolière’s “Sicilien” or “Love makes the Painter”
Le Sicilien (théâtre-documentation) Although Le Sicilien ou l’amour peintre forms part of Isaac de Benserade’s Ballet des Muses, and is a comédie-ballet, written by Molière and composed by...
View ArticleA Reading of Molière’s “Psyché” (Part One)
Cupid Delivering Psyche by Sir Edward Burne-Jones (preraphalitesisterhood.com) Psyché Molière’s Psyché was written in collaboration with dramatists Pierre Corneille[1] and Philippe Quinault. As...
View ArticleThe Princesse d’Élide’s Récit de l’Aurore
Dom Garcie de Navarre ou le Prince jaloux par François Boucher, dessin, et Laurent Cars, gravure Our next play is Dom Garcie de Navarre. It was not a success, but it is a fine discourse on jealousy. I...
View ArticleLe Bourgeois gentilhomme: “Je languis…”
My computer doesn’t work. It needs a new keyboard and my connection to Microsoft stopped when two-step verification was installed. My keyboard will be replaced and I will also purchase a new computer....
View ArticleMolière’s ‟Les Fâcheux,” ‟The Bores” (1)
Les Fâcheux par Edmond Hédouin (theatre-documentation.com) I may not be able to post Les Fâcheux today. It would be too long a post. But I could indicate that in Les Fâcheux, first performed on 17...
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