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This is a French language text of L'École des
femmes of the theatrical comedy written by the seventeenth century French
playwright Molière and considered one of his finest achievements. It was first
staged at the Palais Royal theatre on 26 December 1662. The central character
is so intimidated by femininity he makes clumsy advances to marry his young,
naïve ward.
Features/Table of Contents
Introduction
Notes stylistiques
Chronologie
Épître de Molière
Préface de Molière
L'École des femmes
Market
The
Focus Student Editions are appropriate as introductory texts for French
language courses in literature and culture.
Focus Student Edition Series:
Guy
de Maupassant: Pierre et Jean Voltaire:
Candide ou l'Optimisme
Corneille: Le Cid Moliere:
L'Ecole des femmes
About the Authors
Eileen M. Angelini received her B.A. in French from
Middlebury
College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in
French Studies from
Brown
University. She is
Professor of French and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages at
Canisius
College. Dr. Angelini has won research
grants from the
U.S.,
French, and Canadian governments. She is a frequent presenter at national and
regional conferences and the author of publications on literary analysis, and
on pedagogy, focusing on the professions and cross-cultural communication. Dr.
Angelini is a Question Leader for the AP French Language Examination and a
College Board Consultant. Dr. Angelini was awarded the 2008 AATF Dorothy Ludwig
National Award for Outstanding Teacher of the Year.
Myrna Bell
Rochester (A.B. Romance Languages,
University of
Chicago; M.A., Ph.D. French, U.C.L.A.)
also studied at the Université de Genève. Her book on Surrealist poet and
novelist René Crevel was published in Stanford French and Italian Studies (René Crevel: Le Pays des miroirs absolus). Dr. Rochester taught at
U.C.L.A.,
Menlo
College, and Stanford. She is a
free-lance book editor and the author of college texts: Rendez-vous, Entrée
en scène, Bonjour, ça va? and Vis-à-vis, as well as a trade text, Easy
French Step-by-Step).
Dr. Rochester is the co-editor of the
French literary classics series for Focus Publishing: Camara Laye's L'Enfant noir, Molière's L'École des femmes, Maupassant's
Pierre et Jean, Voltaire's Candide, and Corneille's Le Cid. Her criticism includes studies
of Simone de Beauvoir, Béatrix Beck, Dominique Desanti, and other women writers of the World War II era. She
contributed English translations to Surrealist
Women: An International Anthology
(ed. Penelope Rosemont) and to the award-winning Black, Brown and Beige: Surrealist Writings from
Africa
and the Diaspora (eds. Franklin Rosemont and Robin D. G. Kelley). Dr.
Rochester contributes to the UK-based online Literary Encyclopedia.
Reviews
FRENCH REVIEW, Vol. 80, No. 6 (2007), pp. 1431-1432
From NECTFL Review #62 (Spring/Summer)
These
editions are meant to provide students with a smooth transition from the study
of language to the study of literature. As a matter of fact, they oftentimes
provide a bridge that leads imperceptibly from one to the other (this is
particularly true in the case of L’enfant noir, the story of a boy’s
youth told with meticulous contextualization, considerable repetition, and
constant rephrasing — characteristic techniques of the oral storytelling
tradition).... [T]he Focus Student Edition of L’enfant noir is currently
the best available. It has great merit. AP and non-AP teachers of Francophone
literature should not hesitate to adopt it.
~ J. Vincent H. Morrissette,
Fairfield
University