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Molière Biography. M olière really knew how to tick people off. Born in 1622, he is considered France’s answer to Shakespeare and is arguably the greatest writer of neoclassical comedy.
by Helen L. Harrison. SOURCE: “Language for Money: the Patron and the Servant,” in Pistoles/Paroles: Money and Language in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy, Rookwood Press, 1996, pp. 151-70 ...
by David Whitton. SOURCE: “‘Don Juan,’ 1665-1925,” in Molière: Don Juan, Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 1-17. [In this excerpt, Whitton reviews the performance history of Don Juan ...
Molière possessed a brilliant imagination, constantly creating new characters and easily moving from one type of comedy to another. His imagination was, however, carefully controlled through ...
Summary. Don Juan by Moliére is a comedic play about the fictitious Don Juan, a notoriously atheistic and adulterous individual. Moliére's play takes place over the course of Don Juan's final ...
In genre, the plays of Moliere differ greatly from those of Shakespeare. For the most part, Moliere is known for his comedies of manners in which he satirizes and parodies nobles, doctors, priests ...
Introduction. Molière 's The Miser, titled L'Avare in French, is a five-act comedic play that was first performed in Paris in 1668. Molière, a renowned French playwright of the 17th century, was ...
Summary. Arnolphe, the protagonist of the play, is a forty-two-year-old bachelor who has convinced himself that intelligent women cannot be trusted. He is certain that if he marries, his wife will ...
Amphitryon and his slave Sosia are returning to their native city of Thebes following a long period fighting a war abroad. While he was away, the god Jupiter, struck by the beauty of Amphitryon's ...
As for Molière's Le Dépit amoureux, the main story, having to do with Ascagne, supposedly a man but really a woman secretly married to Valère, who believes her to be Lucile, is taken, according ...
