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Scarron, Paul
Scarron, Paul (1610–60), French dramatist and novelist, crippled by rheumatism at the age of 30 and forced to rely on his pen for a livelihood. He wrote a number of witty though slightly scabrous farces, of which the first two, Jodelet; ou, Le Maître-valet (1643) and Jodelet souffleté (1645), were produced at the Marais with the comedian Jodelet himself in the title-roles. In 1652 Scarron married the beautiful but penniless orphan Françoise d'Aubigné, who as Mme de Maintenon was to become the second wife of Louis XIV and the virtual ruler of France. Meanwhile Scarron continued to write for the theatre. The best example of his burlesque comedy, in which he obtained his comic effects by ingenious word-play and by the incongruity between subject-matter and style, is Don Japhet d'Armenié (1647), frequently revived in later years by Molière. L'Écolier de Salamanque (1654) is notable for the character of the valet Crispin, long played by successive members of the Poisson family. Scarron, whose interest in Spanish literature had led him to translate a number of Spanish plays, modernizing them and adding much material of his own, may have taken from Agustín de Rojas the idea of his most important work Le Roman comique (1651), a novel which depicts the adventures of an itinerant provincial theatre company. It has considerable documentary value.
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Scarron, Paul." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Scarron, Paul." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-ScarronPaul.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Scarron, Paul." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-ScarronPaul.html |
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Paul Scarron
Paul Scarron , 1610–60, French writer. His picaresque novel Le Romant comique (1651) vividly portrays the lives of a company of strolling players. He also wrote short stories, collected as Les Nouvelles tragi-comiques (1655), satires, and burlesque poems and plays. Scarron married (1652) Françoise d'Aubigné, known later as Mme de Maintenon. He was long bedridden with paralysis. |
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"Paul Scarron." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Paul Scarron." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Scarron.html "Paul Scarron." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Scarron.html |
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