Did Corneille write Molière's most famous plays?
The idea is not new.
It was launched in 1919 by a Pierre Louÿs who liked to be noticed, has since been relayed by semantic studies which corroborated it before being themselves invalidated by others.
In short, we always get worked up about it and the novelist Eve de Castro (
Les bâtards du soleil
) makes it the plot of her novel
L'autre Molière
, just published by Éditions l'Iconoclaste.
The art of reviving the debate!
Le Figaro.
- Since Pierre Louÿs, it is said that a writing agreement would have been made between Molière and Corneille.
What additional evidence do you provide?
Eve de CASTRO.- No
one has proof.
The textual analyzes give, according to the methods used, opposite results, each attempt claiming to annihilate the previous conclusions.
The academics who challenged the collaboration thesis in 2019 have just analyzed
Psyché
, whose preface specifies that Corneille wrote the…
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