Attento studioso della componente psicologica e sociale dell'uomo, Molière in questa commedia sfrutta la propria esperienza non soltanto di autore teatrale, ma anche di...
Hé quoi ! charmante Élise, vous devenez mélancolique, après les obligeantes assurances que vous avez eu la bonté de me donner de votre foi ? Je vous vois soupirer, hélas !...
Psyche's jealous sisters attempt to attract the attention of her two most recent suitors, without success. Psyche refuses both suitors before being called away by a messenger. The...
Harpagão é um velho odioso, pão-duro e mesquinho. Sua avareza beira o ridículo: dizem que já processou na justiça o gato do vizinho por ter comido o resto de um pernil de...
Alceste, the misanthrope, hates everyone including himself. But unlike in many pure farces with their cliche stock characters, the characters here are much more well-rounded, and...
The miser of the title is called Harpagon, a name adapted from the Latin harpago, meaning a hook or grappling iron. He is obsessed with the wealth he has amassed and always ready...
The King, who will have nothing but what is magnificent in all he undertakes, wished to give his court an entertainment which should comprise all that the stage can furnish. To...
Molière excels in farce as well as in higher comedy, and 'Monsieur de Pourceaugnac' is one of the best of its kind. The attacks upon the doctors of the time are not exaggerated....
The play takes place at Mr. Jourdain's house in Paris. Jourdain is a middle-aged 'bourgeois' whose father grew rich as a cloth merchant. The foolish Jourdain now has one aim in...
Una delle opere più celebri nella storia della commedia francese, questo lavoro di Molière, l'ultimo nella carriera del grande commediografo, presenta ampi cenni...