The colbertism in the comedies of Molière

Authors

  • Boštjan Marko Turk University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4312/an.51.1-2.71-90

Keywords:

Molière, comedy, mercantilism, bourgeois, comical, Henri Bergson, monomania, mechanic, living creature’s organic movement, rhetorical figure

Abstract

The article deals with the role of the bourgeois in the great comedies of J. B. Molière. It shows the artist’s dichotomy regarding the class which was – in the time of Louis XIV – getting the decisive influence over the “state affairs”. The article tries to find the answer why.

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Published

21.11.2018

How to Cite

Turk, B. M. (2018). The colbertism in the comedies of Molière. Acta Neophilologica, 51(1-2), 71–90. https://doi.org/10.4312/an.51.1-2.71-90

Issue

Vol. 51 No. 1-2 (2018)

Section

Articles

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Copyright (c) 2018 Boštjan Marko Turk

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