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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... Pages in category "Plays by Molière" The following 20 pages are in this category ...
Frontispiece and title page of Le Bourgeois gentilhomme from a 1688 edition. Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (French pronunciation: [lə buʁʒwa ʒɑ̃tijɔm], translated as The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Middle-Class Aristocrat, or The Would-Be Noble) is a five-act comédie-ballet – a play intermingled with music, dance and singing – written by Molière, first presented on 14 October 1670 before ...
The play satirizes the hypocrisies of French aristocratic society, but it also engages a more serious tone when pointing out the flaws that afflict all humans. The play differs from other farces of the time by employing dynamic characters like Alceste and Célimène as opposed to the flat caricatures of traditional social satire. It also ...
Molière performed his first version of Tartuffe in 1664. Almost immediately following its performance that same year at Versailles' grand fêtes (The Party of the Delights of the Enchanted Island/Les fêtes des plaisirs de l'ile enchantée), King Louis XIV suppressed it, probably under the influence of the archbishop of Paris, Paul Philippe Hardouin de Beaumont de Péréfixe, the King's ...
The School for Husbands is a play written by Molière and originally performed in 1661 in Paris. [1] Inspired by the Adelphoe of Terence, it was the first of his full length plays, preceding The School for Wives by a year. [2] The plot centers on the suitors of two sisters, each of whom is a ward of each of the two men.
Censorship of the play Dom Juan or The Feast of Stone (1665), by Molière, is documented in the article La scène du pauvre, Paris 1682, dans ses deux états.. Dom Juan or The Feast of Stone (1665) presents the story of the last two days of life of the Sicilian courtier Dom Juan Tenorio, who is a young, libertine aristocrat known as a seducer of women and as an atheist.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (French: [ʒɑ̃ batist pɔklɛ̃]; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (UK: / ˈ m ɒ l i ɛər, ˈ m oʊ l-/, US: / m oʊ l ˈ j ɛər, ˌ m oʊ l i ˈ ɛər /; [1] [2] [3] French:), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature.
The Imaginary Invalid, The Hypochondriac, or The Would-Be Invalid (French title Le Malade imaginaire, [lə malad imaʒinɛːʁ]) is a three-act comédie-ballet by the French playwright Molière with dance sequences and musical interludes (H.495, H.495 a, H.495 b) by Marc-Antoine Charpentier.