Zadig Est Il Pour Plaire Ou Instruire

asked to see Le Misanthrope), authors began to grapple with the very modern problem of interesting a public and winning an audience. ‘Notre premier but est de plaire à la cour et au peuple’, observed Corneille, a view shared by both Molière, who considered that his prime object was to ‘plaire’, and Racine: ‘La principale règle est de plaire et de toucher.’ But pleasing the public meant negotiating a way through a complex framework of moral, social and aesthetic precepts. The Elaboration of the