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Media in category "Plays by Molière" This category contains only the following file. B. File:Lully Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme - 01. Ouverture.ogg
Pages in category "Plays based on works by Molière" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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.
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 ...
Scapin constantly lies and tricks people to get ahead. He is an arrogant, pompous man who acts as if nothing were impossible for him. However, he is also a diplomatic genius. He manages to play the other characters off of each other very easily, and yet manages to keep his overall goal — to help the young couples — in sight.
The Imaginary Invalid, The Hypochondriac, or The Would-Be Invalid (French title Le Malade imaginaire, [lə malad imaʒinɛːʁ]) is a three-act comédie-ballet by the French playwright Molière with dance sequences and musical interludes (H.495, H.495 a, H.495 b) by Marc-Antoine Charpentier.
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.
Plays by Molière (20 P, 1 F) Pages in category "Molière" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...