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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.
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.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (French pronunciation: [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.
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 ...
In 1951 the Brazilian writer Guilherme Figueiredo wrote a play entitled Don Juan. [9] In 1952, the Spanish writer Jacinto Benavente published his play Ha llegado Don Juan. [10] Don Juan in Tallinn (1971) is an Estonian film version based on a play by Samuil Aljošin. In this version, Don Juan is a woman dressed in men's clothes.
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 play was also filmed by the Comédie-Française in 1973. [ 38 ] On 29 September 1986, BBC Radio 3 broadcast an adaptation using a translation by Miles Malleson and directed by Peter Kavanaugh, with Michael Hordern as Harpagon, Eleanor Bron as Frosine, Jonathan Tafler as Cléante, Nicholas Farrell as Valère, Julia Swift as Élise, Elaine ...
The Compagnie Jouvet of Paris staged the play at the first Edinburgh International Festival in 1947. Let Wives Tak Tent, a free translation into Scots by Robert Kemp, was first performed at the Gateway Theatre in Edinburgh in 1948. First produced on Broadway, performed in French, with Louis Jouvet at the ANTA Playhouse from 18 March to 3 April ...