TY - ECHAP A1 - Géraud, Violaine TI - Genèse du comique - Du pathos à « l’archiethos » T3 - The eighteenth century, n° 16 in Rencontres M1 - 146 DO - 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-5118-8.p.0131 SN - 978-2-8124-5118-8 SP - 131 EP - 148 AB - Beaumarchais transformed ­comedy by letting it play out on a dramatic background. Symmetrically, La Mère coupable was born from a ­comedic plot. However, the interaction between drama and ­comedy is not hugely fertile in La Mère coupable. The striking ­comic success can be explained in terms of the revolution ­constituted by the invention of the ­l’archiethos spirituel. This article proposes this term in order to make sense of the faculty given to all ­comic characters to be, at least momentarily, spiritual. PY - 2015 DA - 2015/12/23 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier CY - Paris LA - fre UR - https://shop.staging.classiques-garnier.net/nouveaux-regards-sur-la-trilogie-de-beaumarchais-genese-du-comique-en.html Y2 - 2025/12/07 ER -