SOURCE: “Reading Molière in the Theatre: Mise en Scène and the Classic Text,” in Rereading Molière: Mise en Scène from Antoine to Vitez, University of Michigan Press, 1993, pp. 1-23.
In this excerpt, Carmody develops a methodology for interpreting Molière's works through the lens of twentieth-century stagings. Carmody's interest is in how these stagings address issues of historical distance and Molière's status as a classic author.
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