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	Encyclopedia topic: Alceste (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alceste is an opera (A drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes) by Christoph Willibald Gluck (additional info and facts about Christoph Willibald Gluck).
		Alceste is part of the standard operatic repertoire (additional info and facts about standard operatic repertoire).
		Alceste is also the chief character in Molière (French author of sophisticated comedies (1622-1673)) 's Misanthrope (Someone who dislikes people in general).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alceste.htm (91 words)

	Alceste - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alceste (Schweitzer), an opera by Anton Schweitzer (1772)
		Alceste (Guglielmi), an opera by Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi (1768)
		Alceste (Boughton), an opera by Rutland Boughton (1922)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alceste (165 words)

	The Misanthrope
		Alceste is both inside the play and outside: at the beginning, dressed all in fl, he accosts the stage servant (who, by French theatrical tradition, begins performances by rapping his staff against the stage floor) and literally wrestles him to the ground, unwilling to let the play itself begin.
		Alceste in Moliere's play is the plain-speaking outsider, contemptuous of the insincerity of the world of high society, unable to tolerate the hypocrisy and duplicity of everyday social discourse and unable to restrain himself from speaking out against it.
		In the play as written, Alceste's one flaw is that he has fallen in love with young widow Celimne (Nancy Bell), despite the fact that she is as duplicitous as everyone else in society, and as unwilling to separate herself from society as Alceste would wish her to.
	www.english.upenn.edu /~cmazer/misan.html (618 words)

	CliffsNotes::The Misanthrope:Book Summary and Study Guide
		Alceste believes that a man must at all costs be honest with himself and with all of his acquaintances.
		Alceste also maintains that no self-respecting man can accept a compliment as genuine when he is perfectly aware that all compliments are paid equally without distinction as to merit.
		Alceste adamantly refuses to stoop to such devices and insists that his suit must be tried purely on the basis of justice.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-129,pageNum-4.html (289 words)

	SparkNotes: The Misanthrope: Plot Overview
		During the conversation between Alceste and Philinte, Oronte, a marquis of the Court enters, proposing that he and Alceste commit to being friends.
		Alceste confronts his love interest Célimène (whose house is the setting for the play) about her recent behavior, which he considers inappropriate.
		Alceste's servant, Du Bois, enters, telling his master to leave immediately, as he has lost his court battle and now runs the risk of arrest.
	www.sparknotes.com /drama/misanthrope/summary.html (1023 words)

	The Misanthrope by Moliere
		Alceste shows himself to be very cynical about the motives of people and Philinte shows himself to be very sincere believing that people should be kind to each other even if it meant putting on a false face.
		Alceste wants to leave all these problems he is having, but Philinte convinces him to stay and think everything through.
		She really does not want to be with him and then Alceste decides that she is really not worth his time and he really does not like her.
	summarycentral.tripod.com /themisanthrope.htm (799 words)

	Society, fashion, and hypocrisy in The Misanthrope
		No, Alceste, himself an owner of estates, yearns to be accepted by the very society he condemns, and that was seen from the first in the costume which Molière wore when he played Alceste, a costume that represents the latest fashion--expensive, tasteful, and stylish.
		Alceste is one of the most arresting characters in drama--a man ruled by his passionate distaste for society and its hypocrisy, who is also deeply in love with a flighty, witty coquette who lives only for the social life that Alceste continually attacks and denounces.
		Alceste's self-knowledge costs him something, and, if presented with care, these moments within the play can open up the humanity of the character in ways that are unusual to a comedy.
	www.indiana.edu /~thtr/2000/misanthrope/fashion.html (763 words)

	The Misanthrope
		Alceste — the misanthrope of Molire's title — looks scornfully on, until later in the play he too is drawn into a blind-man's-bluff gavotte of desire.
		Alceste in Molire's play is the plain-speaking outsider, contemptuous of the insincerity of the world of high society, unable to tolerate the hypocrisy and duplicity of everyday social discourse and unable to restrain himself from speaking out against it.
		In the play as written, Alceste's one flaw is that he has fallen in love with young widow Climne (Nancy Bell), despite the fact that she is as duplicitous as everyone else in society, and as unwilling to separate herself from society as Alceste would wish her to.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/032196/article004.shtml (618 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Music / A team effort gives new life to 'Alceste'
		Alceste, the heroine who agrees to die to save her husband's life, casts off her outer garments, removes her jewelry, and spends much of the opera in a shimmering white shift.
		The rest of the cast is first-rate, and both baritone Stephen Salters as a high priest, with a larger voice than Folland, and tenor Norman Shankle as Alceste's husband, with a smaller voice, demonstrate the vehemence of diction she couldn't supply.
		At the end, flowers bloom again in the charred landscape; Alceste, the character, and the opera in which she appears, have come to life again.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2005/01/29/a_team_effort_gives_new_life_to_alceste (702 words)

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		Alceste's generic request itself constitutes an important contribution to the late medieval association between women and hagiography, but it also draws on it, recalling the phenomenon of women's active participation in the hagiographic tradition.
		It is Alceste who points to this most strikingly in the Prologue, standing not only as patron but also as audience of the poet's work: in rebuffing the God of Love's hasty condemnation of the poet, she catalogues Chaucer's career, exhibiting her familiarity with the full range of his poetry.
		Alceste's request for hagiography, then, is not only a task set the poet but a hermeneutic guide to the stories he tells, one that would anticipate not only the narrative pattern of hagiography, but its positive association with female audiences in the late medieval cultural imagination.
	www.english.ufl.edu /exemplaria/preprints/sanok/sanok.htm (7578 words)

	Animus: Paul Epstein, Marriage in Molière's Misanthrope
		Alceste balks at this, saying that friendship is not the work of a day, but needs time to develop.
		Alceste had therein not only denounced Célimène's faults to her face, but had also declared criticism of the beloved an essential aspect of the lover's love.
		This sentiment indicates that Éliante does not regard Alceste as an ordinary lover; the peculiar form of his love, just expressed in her hearing, is beyond her experience and comprehension.
	www.swgc.mun.ca /animus/2001vol6/epstein6.htm (3263 words)

	Queer As Folk Addiction \| Gale Harold \| The Misanthrope
		Alceste, originally impersonated by the author himself, is a candid soul who believes that the truth should be spoken at all times.
		Alceste vows that if his suit cannot win through its own merits, he will renounce the society which sanctions such injustice and leave Paris to live the life of a hermit.
		Her main interest is to surround herself with admirers, each of whom she attempts to convince that he is ‘the one.’ Alceste is aware of his recklessness even as he gives in to temptation, but in the argument between his head and his heart, it is love that wins out over principle.
	www.angelfire.com /home/qaf/misanthrope.html (636 words)

	The Misanthrope and Its Complex Hero
		But the fact remains that Alceste's zeal for the chastisement of society is adulterated by what Richard Wilbur calls "his vast, unconscious egotism."{11} Alceste has to lie to himself, to assure himself that the world is uniformly as bad as he makes it out to be.
		Alceste, for all his egotism, is sensitive to the feelings of others--so much so as to back away from his own principles of candor and frankness when Oronte seeks applause for his doggerel.
		But most of those around Alceste are malicious in pursuing their personal ends: the unseen adversary is simply detestable, the suitors lash out savagely against anyone who does not give them their "due," and Célimène treats Alceste like a puppet on a string, mercilessly manipulating him and, in the end, crushing him emotionally.
	members.aol.com /basfawlty/moliere.htm (1159 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Gluck: Alceste [Import]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Yet "Alceste", even in this superior version, has never achieved the popularity of "Orfeo", despite the fact it was allegedly the favourite opera of Berlioz, Gluck's greatest admirer.
		The scene when she waits to be sacrificed to the gods of the underworld in the growing twilight is both terrifying and moving in a way that prefigures early Romanticism.
		She sounds almost like Beethoven's Leonore (and indeed the role of Alceste is a clear predecessor of the heroine of "Fidelio" who saves her husband from the living death of prison).
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000068VL1 (1037 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Theater/Arts / 'Misanthrope' a little too much for Berkshire company
		Alceste, the misanthrope, rejects everything false and insincere about society, partly out of principle, partly out of childish ego.
		As Alceste, David Adkins was so American and out of period that he was even further removed from his surroundings.
		The final image of Alceste and Celimene, seated on opposite sides of the stage, outside the proscenium frame, showed they had arrived by independent routes at the same desolate destination -- isolation and loneliness.
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2004/08/31/misanthrope_a_little_too_much_for_berkshire_company (577 words)

	The Misanthrope
		ALCESTE is one of those candid souls who believe that the truth should be spoken in season and out.
		While Alceste is attempting to persuade Célimène openly to acknowledge their engagement, a pretended friend of Célimène's, Arsinoé by name, under pretense of the frankness that Alceste admires, exposes Célimène's falseness.
		Célimène is willing to take Alceste's name in marriage to make up for the injury which she admits she has done the unquestioned sincerity of his regard.
	www.bhsu.edu /artssciences/theatre/the_misanthrope.htm (402 words)

	sfweekly.com \| Culture \| Stage \| Mise-en-thrope \| 2000-11-08 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alceste loves the beautiful young widow Célimène, who runs a parlor in haute Parisian society, among people who lie and backbite to curry favor with the court.
		Her love for Alceste -- which Alceste doesn't trust -- is real, and Augesen expresses it in the fourth act with a beautifully fervent, wounded speech.
		Gregory Wallace also has a good speech or two as Philinte, Alceste's Sancho Panza, and Kimberly King stands out as Arsinoë, the self-righteous old maid who takes a nice pile of abuse when she comes to warn Célimène that her reputation may be in danger.
	www.sfweekly.com /Issues/2000-11-08/culture/stage.html (989 words)

	Summit Daily News for Breckenridge, Keystone, Copper and Frisco Colorado - Arts and Entertainment
		Alceste's troubles extend also to a pending lawsuit, which Philinte suggests could be dispatched with a few words spoken into well-placed ears.
		Alceste also has the misfortune to be in love with Celimene, a woman a good deal younger than he whose primary goal is to surround herself with as many admirers as possible.
		Such a situation necessitates a certain patience and acceptance on the part of her courtiers, leaving Alceste in a pickle as he tries to reconcile that with his new philosophy of intolerance.
	www.summitdaily.com /article/20041029/AE/110290030 (587 words)

	Boulder Weekly \| Buzz \| CenterStage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Philinte, acting as surrogate voice for the vast majority of humanity, implores Alceste to reconsider his position and reminds him that a certain amount of obfuscation is necessary to grease the wheels of society.
		Despite the fact that Oronte is the one man who could assure Alceste a winning verdict in a pending court case, Alceste alienates him with a derisive critique–albeit one that Oronte demanded–of one of Oronte’s sonnets.
		Moliere ensured that Alceste would not be seen as a one-dimensional character (and made certain that the perfect amount of pathos underlay the pervasive comic elements of The Misanthrope) by having him love Celimene (Ruth Eglsaer), a woman as comfortable with faux praise and courtly gamesmanship as Alceste is abhorrent of it.
	www.boulderweekly.com /archive/110404/centerstage.html (966 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews: San Francisco - The Misanthrope - 10/31/00
		Alceste is a misanthrope, a hater of mankind while Celimene is conceited and shallow, being everything that Alceste dislikes in a person.
		Alceste is contemptuous and he is disgusted by a society that tells the truth only when the subject’s back is turn.
		Alceste is determined to speak to everyone he meets with uninvited candor.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/sanfran/s79.html (794 words)

	The Misanthrope by Moliere
		Alceste tells Eliante that his lover betrayed him and asked that "the faithful worship of mine will offer up to yours as to shrine." Eliante answers him that "You may have my sympathy in all you suffer." Here we see that Alceste is asking Eliante to sleep with him only because he was newly rejected.
		Alceste, having rejected Celimene, is in a state of awareness.
		Both Alceste and Celimene don't seem as if they are the typical male or female, but Eliante and Arsinoe express their characteristics they obtain, showing regularity.
	www.studyworld.com /basementpapers/papers/stack35_22.html (478 words)

	TACIT - The Misanthrope - Nov. 5-21, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ironically, Alceste is enamored of the young widow Célimène, whose malicious tongue and uneasing coquetry make her the embodiment of the very situation he professes to detest.
		But in the end it is Alceste who rejects the match when confidental letters are disclosed in which Célimène has set down scathing remarks about all her would-be lovers, Alceste included.
		As the curtain falls, however, the unruffled Philinte steps forward once more, taking Alceste in hand and urging him to accept things as they are and for what they are, pointing to the cynical moral that it is the wiser course to accept for the best what cannot be changed for the better.
	www.its.caltech.edu /~tacit/2004/misanthrope (283 words)

	Amazon.com: Gluck: Alceste: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There is much to be admired in Anne Sofie Von Otter's interpretation : she makes of Alceste a truly moving character, and really charges each word with meaning and expression.
		Because of that, I'm afraid the Alceste of Jessye Norman for Baudo is still too strong of a contestant : she might be a bit too diva-esque to make you believe that she is a real character, but the voice is just too beautiful for words.
		In "Alceste", Admetus, King of Thessaly is dying.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000068VL1?v=glance (1630 words)

	CliffsNotes::The Misanthrope:Book Summary and Study Guide
		Philinte wants Alceste to call on the judges and pay his respects to them, but Alceste refuses because he feels that the case should be judged entirely by its merits.
		Alceste refuses to pay court to the judge because he sees such an action as a bribe.
		Alceste, who would appear to be setting himself up as the perfect rational being, is in actuality thoroughly irrational in matters of love.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-129,pageNum-5.html (663 words)

	The Misanthrope
		Alceste argues with Philinte about the need to be dogmatic in telling the truth---even if it costs you all kinds of opportunities.
		Later in the play Alceste and Philinte are arguing once again about how to respond to life.
		At the end of the story, Alceste plans on going off somewhere away from society which he detests.
	www.mtsu.edu /~socwork/frost/crazy/misanthrope.htm (1054 words)

	ALCESTE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alceste is the image of the perfect wife; she appears in the Man of Law's catalogue of heroines, MLI 75, and she is on Dorigen's list of virtuous women, FranklT 1442.
		In Chaucer's vision the God of Love leads forth Alceste, who wears a crown made of "flourons smale," LGW F 217; she is clothed in green and crowned with white, LGW F 241-246, LGW G 173-174.
		Alceste pleads for the poet before the God of Love, LGW F 431-441, LGW G 421-431.
	www.columbia.edu /dlc/garland/deweever/A/alceste.htm (332 words)

	Alceste (Gean-Baptiste Lully) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alceste treats the subject of Alcestis, wife of Admetus, King of Thessaly, who is allowed to replace her husband, when he is about to die, but is brought back from the Underworld by Hercules.
		The tragedy is introduced by a prologue in which nymphs long for the victorious return of Louis XIV from battle.
		Alceste, offered in celebration of the victory of Louis XIV against Franche-Comté, provided a magnificent spectacle and the expected element of dance generally found in French opera.
	www.naxos.com /newdesign/fintro.files/bintro.files/operas/Alceste(Gean-Baptiste_Lully).htm (274 words)

	James Madison University Office of Media Relations
		Outraged and discouraged by the empty flattery and hypocrisy of his fellow human beings, Alceste swears that he will speak the truth, no matter the consequences.
		Alceste, however, is in love with the young widow Celimene, a deceitful and flirtatious coquette who embodies the exact qualities that he detests.
		When Celimene's private letters fall into Alceste's hands and he discovers her insincerity, Alceste must decide whether he should leave all human society.
	www.jmu.edu /mediarel/releases/2003/apr/0403moliere.html (171 words)

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