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Molière - Blunderer, or The Counterplots
A very early Moliere. From the Translator: «In this piece the plot is carried on… by a servant, Mascarille, who is the first original personage Molière has created; he is not a mere imitation of the valets of the...
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Molière - Misanthrope
Alceste, the misanthrope, hates everyone including himself. But unlike in many pure farces with their cliche stock characters, the characters here are much more well rounded, and who knows — Alceste might actually...
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Molière - Bourgeois Gentleman
The Bourgeois Gentleman of the title is a middle-class social climber, assured that by learning all the arts of a true and noble gentleman, he shall truly become one. This enables Moliere to satire both the...
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Molière - Miser
The Miser is a comedy of manners about a rich moneylender named Harpagon. His feisty children long to escape from his penny-pinching household and marry their respective lovers. Although the 17th-century French upper...
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Molière - Love-Tiff
«The characters are well delineated, and fathers, lovers, mistresses, and servants all move about amidst a complication of errors from which there is no visible disentangling. The conversation between Valère and...
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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales
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Molière - Psyche
This is a very different Moliere, not the usual satire of everyday life. It is instead a classical tale based on the ancient story of Psyche and Cupid, and was performed for Louis XIV with ballet interludes to music...
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Molière - School for Wives
In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands and then The School for Wives (this one). «The central situations of the two have much in common: the arbitrary and jealous lover to whom...
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Molière - Imaginary Invalid
The Imaginary Invalid (French: Le Malade imaginaire) is a three-act comédie-ballet by the French playwright Molière. It was first performed in 1673 and was the last work he wrote. In an ironic twist of fate, Molière...
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Molière - Impostures of Scapin
Scapin is a liar, a schemer, an arrogant meddler who thinks he can make people do anything. And yet sometimes he acts in the cause of good. Here he attempts to help out some secret lovers whose parents would prefer...
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Molière - Tartuffe
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. Among Molière's best-known works is...
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Molière - Learned Women
Two young people, Henriette and Clitandre, are in love, but in order to marry, they must overcome an obstacle: the attitude of Henriette's family. Her sensible father and uncle are in favour of the marriage; but...
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Molière - George Dandin: or The Abashed Husband
«The treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle having been ratified… and peace being assured… Louis XIV resolved to give a festival in his favorite gardens of Versailles. Moliere's comedy, George Dandin, formed the chief...
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