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Molière's Actors and the Question of Types

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

Roger W. Herzel
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Most of the leading comic roles in the plays of Molière were written to be performed by Molière himself. The fact is well known, and no seríous study of Molíère as a man of the theatre has neglected to see that his development as a playwright is inseparable from his development as an actor, from the conventional intriguing valet of the earliest plays, through his humiliating failure as the heroic Dom Garcie de Navarre, to the title roles in le Misanthrope, l'Avare, and le Malade imaginaire.

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Research Article
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Theatre Survey , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , May 1975 , pp. 1 - 24
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Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1975

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