"Le Festin de Pierre" by Molière, a Reverse Version. About Hypocrisy and Other Tartuffes in "Doña Juana" by Sergi Belbel
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25145/j.cedille.2023.24.14Keywords:
theatre, politics, aesthetics, Molière, Sergi Belbel.Abstract
The aim of this article is to analyze a recent adaptation of one of Molière's most emblematic works, Le Festin de Pierre (1665). It is an unknown play by Sergi Belbel called Doña Juana (2019) which, as its title indicates, is an inverted version of Molière’s creation. This study will examine the adaptation of Belbel, a playwright considered by numerous scholars as an apolitical author, through the prism of political theater. If this is the objective, it is because, from the outset, it seems that its adaptation is not neutral. We can perceive it from the choice of the adapted work as well as from its inverted version, which addresses a topic whose debate is commonplace nowadays.
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