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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.
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Molière is a 1919 play written by Philip Moeller, who subtitled it "A Romantic Play in Three Acts". [1] It has a medium-sized cast, moderate pacing, and two sets; Acts I and III share the same set. Some of the play's characters are historical, figures from the French court of the 1670s.
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 ...
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.
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.
The earliest American production of a play titled The Miser was of Fielding's version in the years following 1766. [27] A Broadway production of a translation of Molière's play ran for only three nights at the Experimental Theatre in 1936 [28] and there have been several revivals since in one version or another.
Molière's play was one of many sumptuous spectacles produced in celebration of the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle. The treaty was signed in 1668 but the festivities continued well into 1671. More specifically, the play was a product of Louis XIV 's desire to re-use the Salle des Machines in the Tuileries Palace which had been built to house Cavalli ...