"Molière and After. Aspects of the Theatrical Enterprise in 17th- and 18th-Century France", European Drama and Performance Studies 2022 – 1, n° 18
Numéro dirigé par Sabine Chaouche et Jan Clarke
In 2022, the 400th anniversary of Molière’s birth will be celebrated by means of conferences, exhibitions and publications worldwide. The enthusiasm with which this event is being greeted demonstrates the dramatist’s continued significance for multiple audiences – in theatres, universities, and among the general public. The present volume seeks to contribute to this commemoration of the man who (after Shakespeare) was undoubtedly one of the greatest actor-dramatists and all round ‘men of the theatre’ the world has ever known through an examination of his legacy with regard to the specific field of entrepreneurship. For, while Molière’s outstanding talents as a playwright, actor and stage-director have been praised and analysed by generations of scholars in the fields of literary and performance studies, his work as a company director
and entrepreneur, and the economic context in which he and his troupe operated, has all too often been overlooked.
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