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| Name: |
Molière | | Birth Date: |
January 15, 1622 | | Death Date: |
January 17, 1673 | | Place of Birth: |
Paris, France | | Place of Death: |
Paris, France | | Nationality: |
French | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
dramatist, writer, actor |
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 Biography of Moliere
14,544 words, approx. 49 pages
 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... summary from source:
 Biography of Molière
1,828 words, approx. 6 pages
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,... 
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 Molière Quotes
1,243 words, approx. 4 pages
 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)...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Molière Information
4,526 words, approx. 15 pages
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...
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 The Washington Post `Molie`re': Life as a Tragicomedy
05/20/1987: 428 words, approx. 1 pages 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...
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Mitchell Greenberg
11,714 words, approx. 39 pages
In the following excerpt, Greenberg offers a psychoanalytic explanation for the fearful reaction against Le Tartuffe during the seventeenth-century.
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Critical Essay by Robert J. Nelson
11,234 words, approx. 37 pages
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.&#... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Jim Carmody
10,954 words, approx. 37 pages
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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