David Bradby is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. Andrew Calder has recently retired from a Readership in the French Department at University College London.
The highest compliment that one can pay to this well-written, appropriately illustrated book is that it spurs us on to revisit Moliere. These essays demonstrate the appropriateness of the focus on Moliere in the past decade, first with the creation of the admirable toutmolier.net website, then with the publication of the eminently useful Moliere Encyclopedia in 2002, and now with the Cambridge Companion. - Ronald W. Tobin, University of California, Santa Barbara