Author:Molière
←Author Index: Mo | Molière (1622–1673) |
French actor, director, and playwright of comedy; born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin |
WorksEdit
- The Pretentious Young Ladies (Les Précieuses ridicules, 1659) trans. by H. van Laun (1875)
- The School for Husbands (L'école des maris, 1661)
- The School for Wives (L'école des femmes, 1662)
- The School for Wives Criticised (La critique de l'école des femmes, 1663)
- The Blunderer, or the Counterplots (L'Étourdi ou les Contretemps, 1655)
- Tartuffe or the Hypocrite, translated by C. H. Page (1908)
- The Mock-Doctor (Le médecin malgré lui, 1666)
- The Misanthrope (Le Misanthrope, 1666) trans. by C. H. Page (1908)
- The Miser (L'avare, 1668), trans. by Charles Heron Wall (1894)
- The Middle-Class Gentleman (Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, 1670) trans. by P. D. Jones (2007)
- The Impostures of Scapin (Les Fourberies de Scapin, 1671) trans. by C. H. Wall (1877)
- The Learned Women (Les Femmes savantes, 1672) trans. by C. H. Wall (1877)
- The Imaginary Invalid (Le Malade imaginaire, 1673) trans. by C. H. Wall (1877)
Works about MolièreEdit
- "Molière", in Biographical and Critical Miscellanies (1845), by William Hickling Prescott
- "Molière," by Andrew Lang in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
Works by this author published before January 1, 1926 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.