Jean-Baptiste Poquelin , better known as Molière ( 1622-01-15 – 1673-02-17 ) was a French theatre writer, director and actor, one of the masters of comic satire. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Tartuffe (1664) 1.2 Le Misanthrope (1666) 1.3 Amphitryon (1666)...
Molière's talents as both a writer and an actor were so great that at the height of his career he was often confused with the characters of his plays, whether cuckolded and browbeaten husbands, crafty servants, or, in the eyes of the...
The French dramatist Molière (1622-1673) wrote comedies that range from simple farces to sophisticated satires. The master of French comedy, he was both the product and the critic of the French classical period. As author, director, producer,...
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also known by his stage name, Molière (January 15, 1622 – February 17 1673) was a French playwright and actor who is considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. [1] Among Molière's best-known...
Jean Baptiste Poquelin, better known by his stage name-Molie're-had a fascinatingly frenetic life. The French satirist's personal history combined comic and tragic elements with an ironic complexity worthy of his own plays. In a relaxed, mostly engaging production of Mikhail Bulgakov's "Molie're, or The...
Nelson is an American critic and educator whose works on French literature include Play Within a Play: The Dramatist's Conception of His Art (1958), and Corneille: His Heroes and Their Worlds (1963). In the following essay, he discusses Molière 's treatment of the relationship between appearance and reality in Le Tartuffe, Dom Juan, and Le Misanthrope, "in order to assess [the meaning of this theme for Molière 's art in particular and for comic theory in general.&#...
In this excerpt, Carmody develops a methodology for interpreting Molière's works through the lens of twentieth-century stagings. Carmody's interest is in how these stagings address issues of historical distance and Molière's status as a classic author.
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