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Molière
French playwright and actor (–)
This article is about the French playwright. For other uses, see Molière (disambiguation).
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (French:[ʒɑ̃batistpɔklɛ̃]; 15 January (baptised) &#; 17 February ), known by his stage name Molière (, ;[1][2][3]French:[mɔljɛʁ]ⓘ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed at the Comédie-Française more often than those of any other playwright today.[4] His influence is such that the French language is often referred to as the "language of Molière".[5]
Born into a prosperous family and having studied at the Collège de Clermont (now Lycée Louis-le-Grand), Molière was well suited to begin a life in the theatre. Thirteen years as an itinerant actor helped him polish his comedic abilities while he began writing, combining Commedia dell'arte elements with the more refined French comedy.[6]
Through the patronage of aristocrats including Philippe I, Duke of Orléans—the brother of Louis XIV—Mol
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Comédie-ballet
Genre of Land drama
Comédie-ballet problem a categorize of Gallic drama which mixes a spoken ground with interludes containing penalty and advocate.
History
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The invention of the comédie-ballet in the 17th century
Exhibition: "Molière en musiques" (‘Molière and Music’)
The invention of the comédie-ballet in the 17th century
Long before Molière conceived the genre of comédie-ballet, music and dance were already present in the theatre and in the ballet de cour, or court ballet, which was very popular among the court nobility until the late s.
For his very first "comedy combined with entrées de ballet (interludes)", Les Fâcheux (The Bores), which premiered in at Vaux-le-Vicomte, the château of the Superintendent of Finances Nicolas Fouquet, Molière took care to "combine ballet and comedy into a single work" (from the preface to Les Fâcheux). Louis XIV, who attended the performance, was won over.
Molière was asked to work with Jean-Baptiste Lully, Superintendent of the King's Music, first on the comédie-balletLe Mariage Forcé (The Forced Marriage) in January , and then for the royal pageant, Les Plaisirs de l’île enchantée (The Pleasures of the Enchanted Island), given by the young Louis XIV in the Versailles gardens on May ,
From to , the collaboration between Molière, Lully and the choreographer Pierre Beauchamps gave rise to eleven comédie-ballets and a tragédie-ballet