The Works of Molière, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Boursault believed, or affected to believe, that Moliere intended to portray him, and hence replied in the Portrait o'zc Peiiztre which was performed at the hotel de Bourgogne. Tradition mentions that the Duke de la Feuillade took other means to avenge himself. He one day met Moliere in one of the galleries of the Palace of Versailles. Pretending to be very polite and courteous he ran towards him smiling, and whilst embracing him, and rubbing all the while the actor's face against the metal-worked buttons of his coat, he shouted out, Cream - tart, Moliere! Cream-tart It is said that Louis XIV. Banished the Duke from the Court for some time for this offense, and that he ordered Moliere to take anew vengeance upon his enemies. There can be no doubt about the order, for Moliere states so expressly in T/ze fi/iproflipt/c of Versailles.

The School for Wives criticised may be taken as Moliere's general reply to his critics; for it deals as much with the points of good and bad criticism as with the special features of T/ze Sc/zoo! For Wives. Indeed, the defense raised, through the mouth of Dorante, of certain passages of the latter plav which had been roughly handled by the poet's con temporaries, are perhaps the weakest parts of le Sc/zool for Wit/es criticised; whereas the generalities which deal with the art and practice of criticism are exceptionally shrewd and pungent.

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