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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 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 ...
The Miser (French: L'Avare; pronounced; also known by the longer name L'Avare ou L'École du Mensonge, meaning The Miser, or the School for Lies) [1] [2] is a five-act comedy in prose by the French playwright Molière.
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.
Les Femmes savantes (engraving by Moreau le jeune). Les Femmes savantes (French pronunciation: [le fam savɑ̃t], The Learned Ladies) is a comedy by Molière in five acts, written in verse.
Front page of L'École des femmes —engraving from the 1719 edition. The School for Wives (French: L'école des femmes; pronounced [lekɔl de fam]) is a theatrical comedy written by the seventeenth century French playwright Molière and considered by some critics to be one of his finest achievements.