...Edward D. Sullivan THE ACTORS’ ALCESTE: EVOLUTION OF THE MISANTHROPE By EDWARDD. SULLIVAN The enigmatic nature of Alceste in Le Misanthrope of MoliPre has been the subject of endless discussions, and rare indeed is the literary...

...Edward D. Sullivan Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 MOLE’S INTERPRETATION OF MOLIERE’S MISANTHROPE By EDWARDD. SULLIVAN Of the many actors who have played Alceste in MoliPre’s Misa?r- thrope Mole is particularly...

... center of this essay is the paradoxical figure of the misanthrope, toward whom both sides of the argument point and in whom the real space of character is disclosed. “Let Me Play the Fool” The Merchant of Venice is a work of theory in that nothing happens.6 Events are possible, approached...

....~In other words, the limitations in the approach of the eighteenth- and nine- teenth-century critics arose precisely from the fact that they were able to answer the question whether Swift was a misanthrope only in accordance with the view of human nature they already held. Since each...

..., with his injunction to Pope to “give the world one lash the more” at his request. Moreover, Swift’s apparently misanthropic intent had already caused his friends some alarm. Bolingbroke (getting his in- formation from Ford) gave thanks that Stella, at least, stood between the Dean and complete...

... virtuousness and mocked the prudery of age. Dorine in Tavtufe, Cklimkne in Le Misanthrope, and Dorante of La Critique de l‘kcole des femmcs, all imply that prudes condemn by envy rather than by moral superiority ; their remarks express a similarity of attitude rather than any direct debt...

... interpretation of Swift as the dour and doughty and probably deranged misanthrope has been yielding to revisionist interpretations which see him as basically an authentic traditionalist given to extremes chiefly in his satirization of extremist positions. Miss Williams con- tinues...

..., the author makes it clear that an instance of success is merely to be measured in relation to the pervading dominance of failure. This is no doubt true. But here, too, one may wonder how proper it is to conclude that Balzac is “an artist of despair” (p. 141). He does not have Flaubert’s misanthropic...

... and proceeded to approach his Timon and Coriolanus with derision and contempt. Campbell’s words are : “Timon of Athens is Shakespeare’s first tragic satire.” In these lines [Timon’s epitaph] Timon absurdly seeks to create a post- humous life for his misanthropic railing (page 193). Shakespeare...

... Works on Specific Plays.” One notes that the plays most widely discussed are “Le Tartuffe” and “Le Misanthrope,” followed by one of MoliPre’s greatest plays, “Don Juan,” which, unfortunately, seems to have been forgotten by the modern stage. The fourth part, entitled “Miscellanea...

... 111-14, removed only four stanzas from the end, the “I” of the poem is still much aware of his own failings, fearful of his own feelings, resolved to conceal them, still standing alone, proudly at war with society (“I have not loved the world, nor the world me misanthropic to the end...

... refinement. For some time now the romantic interpretation of Swift as the dour and doughty and probably deranged misanthrope has been yielding to revisionist interpretations which see him as basically an authentic traditionalist given to extremes chiefly in his satirization...

..., L’Hypocrite, Le Misanthrope, Le Mariage Forck, Le Mkdecin malgrk Lui, Le Malade Imaginaire, pour ne citer que quelques exemples . Mais ce n’est pas tout que de savoir ce qui fait rire et ce qui plait. Encore faut-il l’exkcuter avec succits. Donc, Moliitre n’est pas seule- ment un acteur, un...

... 1516. Sasso also holds on to the unilateral view of a fire-eating Machiavelli, friend of hell-bent, misanthropic politicians. Whit- field chides Sasso and many others for making of spegnere i suddili a touch- stone of pure Machiavellianism: that phrase originally referred to the “sub- jects...

... the affirma- tion of Love, then his teachings could not coexist in Man’s mind with the belief in an anthropomorphic but misanthropic deity. Or, to state the situation differently, Christ the benevolent champion, falsely identified with the Son of God, must destroy the notion of the Father...

...) *Maxim No. 301 of the 1665 edition. A similar misunderstanding marks the relationship between Alceste and CClimCne in the Misanthrope, which contains several passages lifted from Don Garcie. Although both Alceste and the Prince of Navarre have a very low boiling point, although Celimhe...

... themselves.” The rendering of the Misanthrope is the same that John Hughes had published in 1709 in the Monthly Amusement, a period- ical which Ozell himself had edited during its short-lived existence. 6Translator’s preface to Aubignac’s The Whole Art of the Stage (Lon- don, 1684...

... Allworthy, and Dr. Harrison, Richard- son’s Sir Charles Grandison, Goldsmith’s Dr. Primrose, Sir William Thornhill, and Man in Black, Sterne’s Yorick and Uncle Toby, even Smolle tt’s “benevolent misanthrope,” Matt Bramble. All these and many more comprise a gallery of good men, men...

... is Allwit’s attitude toward the world. He is the confirmed misanthrope and the perennial detractor. Possessed of sufficient self-knowledge to realize that he is not much as a human being, Allwit plays the cynic’s game. He grants what he is: I thank him,has maintain’d my house this ten...

... the fact that many of the songs in Shakespeare’s plays have a strong misanthropic note. On the whole, they give us more of Feste than of -4rieL8 Housman en- joyed the songs as something more than pretty incidentals in the plays. He must have relished the strong dramatic temper...