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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.
Neither was happy; the wife was a flirt, the husband jealous. On the strength of a scurrilous anonymous pamphlet, La Fameuse Comédienne, ou histoire de la Guérin (1688), her character was slandered. She was certainly guilty of indifference and ingratitude, possibly of infidelity; they separated after the birth of a daughter in 1665, and met ...
Wife of Orgon, step-mother of Damis and Mariane Dorine: Madeleine Béjart: Family housemaid (suivante), who tries to help expose Tartuffe and help Valère and Mariane. Cléante: La Thorillière: Brother of Elmire, brother-in-law of Orgon (the play's raisonneur) Mariane: Mlle de Brie: Daughter of Orgon, the fiancée of Valère and sister of Damis
Philaminte and Belise enter in Scene 6 and reveal the motive for their anger at Martine: she has committed a terrible crime - bad grammar, which is worse, they say, than theft. In Scene 7, Chrysale reproaches his wife for neglecting common sense and ordinary household duties in her obsession with her studies and her patronage of Trissotin.
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.
Sganarelle, or The Imaginary Cuckold (French: Sganarelle, ou Le Cocu imaginaire) is a one-act comedy in verse by Molière.It was first performed on 28 May 1660 at the Théâtre du Petit-Bourbon in Paris to great success.
Armande Béjart — young wife to Molière. Jean-Baptiste Poquelin — known to the world as Molière. Louis XIV — the King of France. Françoise — Madame de Montespan, mistress to Louis XIV. Supporting. Baron — a seventeen year old member of Molière's company. La Forest — a sixty-eight-year-old woman, cook and friend to Molière.
Madeleine Béjart in Les précieuses ridicules.. Madeleine Béjart (8 January 1618 – 17 February 1672), was a French actress and theatre director, one of the most famous French stage actors of the 17th-century.