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The Misanthrope is a five-act verse comedy by Molière, first performed in Paris in 1666. Its central character, Alceste, condemns flattery, dishonesty, and social convention but loves Célimène, whose wit and participation in fashionable society contradict his principles. Through their conflict and t...
The Miser is a five-act prose comedy by French playwright Molière, first performed in 1668. Its central character, Harpagon, is a wealthy widower whose obsessive fear of spending and losing money disrupts the marriage plans of his children, Cléante and Élise. Drawing partly on Plautus's ancient Roma...
Le Médecin malgré lui (The Doctor in Spite of Himself) is a three-act comedy by the French playwright Molière, first performed in 1666. The plot follows Sganarelle, a woodcutter who is beaten and coerced by locals into pretending to be a physician to cure a wealthy man's supposedly mute daughter. Th...
The School for Wives is a five-act verse comedy by Molière, first performed in Paris in 1662. Arnolphe has arranged for Agnès to be raised in ignorance, believing that limited education will make her an obedient and faithful wife, but she falls in love with the young Horace and gradually resists Arn...
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme is a comedy-ballet by Molière, first performed in 1670 with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully. It follows Monsieur Jourdain, a wealthy merchant whose efforts to imitate aristocratic manners expose him to manipulation and ridicule. Combining spoken comedy, music, and dance, the wo...
The Doctor in Spite of Himself, originally titled Le Médecin malgré lui, is a three-act farce by Molière first performed in 1666. Its central character, Sganarelle, is a woodcutter whose wife convinces two servants that he is a gifted physician who admits his profession only after being beaten. Forc...
