Rereading Moliere: Mise en Scene from Antoine to Vitez investigates the strategies employed by some of the most influential French directors of the present century to create radical interpretations of Moliere's classic texts. At the same time, the book explores how these reinterpretations of Moliere's popular comedies have articulated a revisionist version of French cultural history. The book focuses on five productions of two Moliere plays: Andre Antoine's and Jacque Arnavon's 1907 Tartuffe, Arnavon's 1936 School for Wives, Roger Planchon's two productions of Tartuffe in the 1960s and 1970s,...