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The Misanthrope and Other Plays Mass market paperbound - 2005

by Jean-Baptiste Moliere; Introduction by Donald M. Frame; Afterword by Lewis Seifert

Including The Misanthrope, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, The Miser, The Would-Be Gentleman, The Mischievous Machinations of Scapin, The Learned Woman, and The Imaginary Invalid, this collection highlights perhaps France's greatest playwright of all time.


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Including The Misanthrope, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, The Miser, The Would-Be Gentleman, The Mischievous Machinations of Scapin, The Learned Woman, and The Imaginary Invalid, this collection highlights perhaps France's greatest playwright of all time.

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The Misanthrope * The Doctor in Spite of Himself * The Miser * The Would-Be Gentleman * The Mischievous Machinations of Scapin * The Learned Women * The Imaginary Invalid "The comedy," Molire once quipped, "is excellent, and they who deride it deserve to be derided." Written during the triumphant final years of Molire's career, these seven works represent the mature flowering of his artistry and the most profound development of his vision of humanity. They are essential to appreciating the full genius of this greatest and best-loved French comic author. With an Introduction by Donald M. Frame and an Afterword by Lewis C. Seifert

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Molière is probably the greatest and best-loved French author, and comic author, who ever lived.

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  • Title The Misanthrope and Other Plays
  • Author Jean-Baptiste Moliere; Introduction by Donald M. Frame; Afterword by Lewis Seifert
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 524
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Signet Book, USA
  • Date September 6, 2005
  • ISBN 9780451529879 / 0451529871
  • Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.82 x 4.28 x 1.2 in (17.32 x 10.87 x 3.05 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Moliere
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006276841
  • Dewey Decimal Code 842.4

About the author

Molire, born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in1622, began his career as an actor before becoming a playwright who specialized in satirizing the institutions and morals of his day. In 1658, his theater company settled in Paris in the Thter du Petit-Bourbon. The object of fierce attack because of such masterpieces as Tartuffe and Don Juan, Molire nonetheless won the favor of the public. In 1665, his company became the King's Troupe, and the following year saw the staging of The Misanthrope, as well as The Doctor in Spite of Himself. In 1668, he produced his bitterly comic The Miser and, in the remaining years before his death, created such plays as The Would-Be Gentleman, The Mischievous Machinations of Scapin, and The Learned Women. In 1673, Molire collapsed onstage while performing his last play, The Imaginary Invalid, and died shortly thereafter. Donald M. Frame was Moore Professor of French at Columbia University and an acclaimed scholar and translator of French literature. Among his notable works of translation are The Complete Essays of Montaigne, The Complete Works of Rabelais, and the Signet Classics Tartuffe & Other Plays and Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories. Lewis C. Seifert is Professor of French Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Fairy Tales, Sexuality and Gender in France, 1690-1715: Nostalgic Utopias and Manning the Margins: Masculinity and Writing in Seventeenth-Century France, as well as numerous articles on seventeenth-century French culture.
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