Moliere The Restoration Come

Download or read book The Relation of Molière to Restoration Comedy (Classic Reprint) written by John Wilcox and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Relation of Molière to Restoration Comedy The book has been developed by applying this method to the study of the primary materials. In it I undertake to find which Restoration plays contain borrowings from Moliere, to tell the nature and the extent of these borrowings, and then to arrive at a just estimate of his influence on Restoration writers individu ally and on their comedy as a type. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.