Author:Molière

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Molière (1622–1673)

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French actor, director, and playwright of comedy; born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin

Molière

Works

• 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)
• Psyché, translated by Charles Heron Wall

Works about Molière

• "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)