Music, Dance, and Laughter: Comic Creation in Moliere's Comedy-Ballets. By STEPHEN H. FLECK. (Biblio 17, 88) Paris, Seattle, and Tubingen: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature. 1995. 231 pp. 22-40 [pounds sterling]; $35.
A welcome tendency of Moliere criticism in recent years has been to give the comedies-ballets something more of the attention they deserve. Following on the pioneering work of Louis Auld, first Claude Abraham (1984) and then Charles Mazouer (1993) have ...