After Molière (1673–1689)

Clarke, Jan

doi:10.1093/fmls/cqac037

After Molière (1673–1689)

Clarke, Jan

Authors

Professor Jan Clarke jan.clarke@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Abstract

Molière was, above all, a man of the theatre: an actor and administrator as well his company’s chief playwright, his death in 1673 was a blow from which many thought his company would not recover. This article examines the fifteen or so years following his death to determine how his immediate successors overcame the difficulties his death presented in each of these three areas. Above all, we see them struggling to protect his works from the danger of over-familiarity, while casting round to find new comic authors to replace him (including from among their own number). And in so doing, they almost coincidentally laid the foundations of the venerable institution we know today as the ‘Maison de Molière’.

Citation

Clarke, J. (2022). After Molière (1673–1689). Forum for Modern Language Studies, 58(3), 297-311. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqac037

Journal Article Type	Article
Online Publication Date	Aug 29, 2022
Publication Date	2022-07
Deposit Date	Dec 5, 2022
Publicly Available Date	Aug 1, 2024
Journal	Forum for modern language studies
Print ISSN	0015-8518
Electronic ISSN	1471-6860
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	58
Issue	3
Pages	297-311
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqac037
Public URL	https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1185768