Word: patronizing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Lefranc advanced another interesting theory, that Moliere wrote "Don Juan" as an attack on his former patron, the Prince de Conti, who had lately gone over to the church party and had inveighed against. "Le Tartuffe" from that point of view. This great blow to Moliere was revenged by the faithful portrayal of the Prince in the figure of the libertine, Don Juan...
...broadened into other fields and the dramatic element increased at the expense of the choral element. But the conservation of the stage and perhaps of the priests of Dionysus preserved in the satyr play an interesting memorial of earlier days. Each tragic poet presented at the feast of the patron-god four plays; the last of these was the satyr play, which was really neither tragedy nor comedy, but a tragedy of the old type with all the rudeness and boisterousness of earlier times. Such a play is the Cyclops, the subject being the blinding of Polyphemus by Odysseus...