Download or read book The Countess of Escarbagnas written by Moliere and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moliere was a prominent French playwright who is widely considered to be one of the greatest comedians in all of literature. Moliere's impact was so great that many phrases from his plays are still used often in the French language today. Moliere's best known plays include Tartuffe, The Miser, The Misanthrope, The Imaginary Invalid, and The School for Wives. The Countess of Escarbagnas is a play that centers around a beautiful and spoiled Countess and the suitors that fail to impress her.
Download or read book The Imaginary Invalid written by Molière and published by Urban Romantics. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The play opens with Argan, a severe hypochondriac, going through the bill from his apothecary (the pharmacist) item by item. He pays out only about half of what is on the bill. That done, he calls for his maid, Toinette. When she fails to appear immediately he shouts and calls her name until she arrives. Toinette is not interested in putting up with Argan's temper, so she mocks his rage. Molière was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. Among Molière's best known works are The Misanthrope, The School for Wives, Tartuffe, The Miser, The Imaginary Invalid, and The Bourgeois Gentleman.
Download or read book The Miser written by Moliere and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This French comedy by Moliere is one of the most performed plays in the history of theatre. The cantankerous Harpagon is hoarding every cent he can, making sure that his two children, Elise and Cleante, live under his oppressive control. Harpagon's daughter Elise has fallen in love with a handsome young fellow, Valere, who pretends to be a servant in the household, despite the fact of his noble birth. In a bizarre happenstance, both Cleante and Harpagon are pursuing the same young woman, Marianne. Meanwhile, scheming servants and others are attempting to confiscate Harpagon's money, much of which is buried. The convoluted plot eventually leads to a hilarious and satisfying conclusion.
Download or read book The Miser and Other Plays written by Molière and published by Digireads.com Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of comedies by Moliere includes: "The School for Wives," a comedy of infidelity and his first great success, "The Critique of the School for Wives," "Don Juan," "The Miser," and "The Imaginary Invalid," the play that Moliere appeared in only hours before his death. Renowned for his comedic genius and ability to portray a true sense of humanity in his characters, Moliere has been delighting and intriguing audiences since the seventeenth century, at which time they pleased King Louis XIV and changed the face of French comic drama. "The Miser," a representative product of Moliere's many-sided genius, is a comedy of manners loosely based on "The Pot of Gold," by the Roman playwright Plautus. In each of these plays, Moliere weaves a dark thread of tragedy into his comic visions of love, society, and the comfortable bourgeois home.
Download or read book The Miser written by Molière and published by Barron's Educational Series. This book was released on 1964 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a translation of Moliere's classic tale of greed.
