Coastal Senior College (CSC), serving lifelong learners in midcoastal Maine from Wiscasset to Camden, opensregistration for its 16 fall courses set to begin the week of Sept. 15.

Current and new members of the College are offered 10in-person courses in locations throughout both Lincoln and Knox counties. An additional six courses are offered on Zoom,available to members of the 17-location Maine Senior College Network statewide.

This fall,CSC will offer “Molière: The Scandal and the Glory of French Comedy 1643–1673,” an eight-session exploration of the playwright on Zoom. 

Instructor Joseph Coté will combine hisknowledge ofthe history of Frenchcomic theater with his own onstage acting experience in classic French plays of the era to bring this most famous of mid–17th-century French playwrights to life. 

The greatest comic artists working centuries later in other media, such as Charlie Chaplin, are the true testimony to the freshness of Molière’s singular vision. Witness and relish mid–17th-century Parisian social veneer peeling away and revealing surprisingly real human beings. 

The course will first place the artisticpassionsof Paris within the historical temper of the age before introducing Jean-Baptiste Poquelin,the “man”by day and the comic “genius”Molière by night at Le Comédie-Française. The course will study the texts of three of the playwright’s greatestplays: “The School for Wives” (1662), “Tartuffe” (1664), and “The Misanthrope” (1666). Course members will have an opportunity to read aloud from key scenes in the plays. 

Information about CSC and registration for the fallcourses may be found at coastalseniorcollege.org.