The Room 206 “Classics”

Jan Batist Poklen, more known under his pseudonym Molier is the outstanding French comediographist, actor, theatrical figure, reformer of scenic art. The service at a court yard of Ludovik XIV had not prevented Molier, basing on tradition of national theatre and achievement classicism, to create a genre of a social comedy, in which buffoonery, plebeian humour were combined with grace and artistry. Deriding class prejudices of the aristocrats, limitation of bourgeois, hypocrisy of noblemen and churchmen, he saw in them a distortion of a human nature, with the special irreconcilability exposed hypocrisy and created an immortal image of Tartuf in a comedy “Tartuf or Cheat”.

The statement “of Don Zhuan” in 1665 had been undergone to prosecutions for freethinking. Viability, art content of images Molier rendered huge influence on development the world, including Russian, dramatic art and theatre.

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