Dom Juan | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 23 pages of analysis & critique of Dom Juan.

Dom Juan | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 23 pages of analysis & critique of Dom Juan.
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SOURCE: “Egoism and Society: A Secular Interpretation of Molière's Dom Juan,” in Modern Languages, Vol. LIX, No. 3, September, 1978, pp. 121-30.

In the following essay, Shaw considers Molière's ambiguity towards the issues brought forth in Dom Juan.

That Dom Juan is the most ‘difficult’ play in the whole Molière canon is something of a critical commonplace: fault has repeatedly been found with its alleged incoherence:

Dom Juan révèle une incohérente ténèbre … Molière, comme jamais, donne l'impression de ne tendre, pour l'immédiat, qu'à ficeler de bric et de brac, un succes au hasard des prises, des échos, des coins de table. [J. Audiberti, Molière Dramaturge. L'Arche, 1954, p. 73.] … l'intrigue reste décousue, incomplète. [G. Michaut, Les Luttes de Molière. Hachette, 1925, p. 148.]

Cette tragédie-comédie fantasque et bouffonne est une macédoine incroyable de tous les genres: elle...

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