中国的莫里哀喜剧研究肇始于20世纪初期,它是随着西方喜剧概念在中国的传播与发展而不断嬗变的。在早期莫里哀研究中,焦菊隐的《论莫里哀》并不是最早论述莫里哀及其喜剧的文章,但焦菊隐论文的独特之处在于它力图克服早期莫里哀研究中以介绍性质为主而导致的粗浅弊病,不仅在莫里哀喜剧中国化的阐释过程中具有承前启后的意义,而且对于中国现代文学中喜剧批评话语体系的建立也有相当重要的理论价值。本文将以焦菊隐的莫里哀研究作为代表性案例来梳理20世纪中国莫里哀研究的历史脉 The study of Moliere comedy in China began in the early 20th century and evolved with the spread and development of the concept of Western comedy in China. In his early studies of Molière, Jiao Juyin’s On Moliere was not the earliest one to discuss Moliere and his comedy. However, Jiao Ju-yin’s essay is unique in that it attempts to overcome the fact that in the early Molière’s study, The superficial ills caused by the Lord not only have the significance of predecessors in the interpretation of the Chinese characteristics of Moliere’s comedy, but also have very important theoretical value for the establishment of the discourse system of comic criticism in Chinese modern literature. This article will take Jiao Ju-yu’s Moliere study as a representative case to sort out the historical veins of Moliere’s study in China in the 20th century