{"product_id":"marmontel-and-demoustier-le-misanthrope-joseph-harris-9781781887530","title":"Marmontel and Demoustier, 'Le Misanthrope corrigé': Two Eighteenth-Century Sequels to Molière's 'Le Misanthrope'","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the end of Molière's masterpiece \u003cem\u003eLe Misanthrope\u003c\/em\u003e (1666), the irascible anti-hero Alceste storms off the stage, resolved to spend the rest of his life in a remote wilderness rather than to spend another moment mixing with corrupt Parisian society. Molière's comedy is thus, in an important sense, unfinished, and various writers over the centuries, from Fabre d'Églantine in the eighteenth century to David Ives in the twenty-first, have written sequels - works that aim simultaneously to exploit the popularity of the original play, to resolve its narrative, and to lay to rest some of its more troubling implications about society. This volume brings together two of the first sequels. As their titles imply, both Jean-François Marmontel's 'moral tale' \u003cem\u003eLe Misanthrope corrigé\u003c\/em\u003e (1765) and its dramatic adaptation, Charles-Albert Demoustier's three-act verse comedy \u003cem\u003eAlceste à la campagne, ou le Misanthrope corrigé\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003ec\u003c\/em\u003e.1790), follow the gradual rehabilitation of Molière's bad-tempered misanthrope. This critical edition traces the two plays' complex relationships both to each other and to Molière's original comedy. It situates them both in the context of Molière reception in the Enlightenment, and particularly in relation to Marmontel's debates with Jean-Jacques Rousseau about the ethics and aesthetics of Molière's original play.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Harris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1781887535\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781781887530\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Modern Humanities Research Association\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.31d","brand":"Joseph Harris","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48241489084671,"sku":"9781781887530","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d38f1d5d-9b17-426f-a14a-6c54c129f70b.jpg?v=1772654636","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/marmontel-and-demoustier-le-misanthrope-joseph-harris-9781781887530","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}