![]() ![]() There is some question on the motivations of Boursault in getting involved in the quarrel. In other words, the critics of Molière are featured as serious and his defenders as fools. In his Portrait, Boursault imitates the structure of Molière's play but subjects the characters to a role reversal. While the character defending the original play, a mouthpiece for the writer, is a straight man with serious and thoughtful replies. In The School for Women Criticized, Molière poked fun at his critics by having their arguments expressed on stage by comical fools. Boursault wrote his play in answer to this second play. Molière had answered his critics with a second play, The School for Women Criticized (French: La Critique de L’École des femmes, June 1663). Criticisms ranged from accusing the playwright of impiety, to nitpicking over the perceived lack of realism in certain scenes. The original play had caricatured "male-dominated exploitative marital relationships", and became a target of criticism. ![]() ![]() Part of an ongoing literary quarrel over The School for Wives (1662) by Molière.
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