>"A year later, Molière’s *self-mockery* has grown more explicit. The new play i...

>"A year later, Molière’s self-mockery has grown more explicit. The new play is The School for Wives Criticised, a short, informal sketch, ridiculing Molière’s critics in an argument about The School for Wives. Significantly, Molière didn’t defend his own play onstage. Instead, he himself played an absurd Marquis, who attacks Molière and his work: ‘I’ve just been to see it… It’s detestable.’ ‘Talk to us about its faults,’ says someone. ‘How should I know? I didn’t even bother to listen,’ replies the Marquis."

PDS:

Good comedians/comedy writers -- mock other people...

Great comedians/comedy writers -- mock themselves!

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