Jean Baptiste Poquelin: 37 books

When the seemingly perfect Tartuffe ingratiates himself with the wealthy Orgon and his mother Madame Pernelle, he is soon welcomed into their home and into their lives. His combination of charm, respectability and religious authority proves so irresistible that he is eventually promised the hand of...

First performed in Paris in 1666, The Misanthrope is one of Molière’s great comic masterpieces. Exasperated by the corruption of society, the cynical but noble Alceste wrestles with his love for the wordly and coquettish Célimène. This version of The Misanthrope was first performed at...

"He's a beast I tell you - a real animal" What happens when you've lived only for pleasure, and you finally run out of time? When you've broken every promise, outraged every decency and slept your way through half of Europe - where do you turn as the clock starts to tick towards midnight?...

• Wilbur’s translations of Molière considered to be the finest available • Countless productions throughout the world • Wilbur is considered to be one of America’s most esteemed poets • Previous winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Poetry

• Wilbur’s translations of Molière considered to be the finest available • Countless productions throughout the world • Wilbur is considered to be one of America’s most esteemed poets • Previous winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Poetry

Molière, undoubtedly one of the greatest writers of comedy in the history of theatre, won enormous success for The School for Wives (L’Ecole des Femmes) in Paris in 1662; yet this highly popular play, satirising ridiculous male attitudes to women, aroused as much hostility as critical acclaim....

'L’Avare (1666) is Molière’s great satire on materialism, a funny yet sophisticated story of cunning, guile and double-dealing, not only by the Miser himself, but also by the Miser’s family and servants. First performed at the Festival Theatre, Chichester in 1995, it was revived at the Salisbury...

The Bores is a character-comedy; but the peculiarities taken as the text of the play, instead of being confined to one or two of the leading personages, are exhibited in different forms by a succession of characters, introduced one after the other in rapid course, and disappearing after the brief...

When the seemingly perfect Tartuffe ingratiates himself with the wealthy Orgon and his mother Madame Pernelle, he is soon welcomed into their home and into their lives. His combination of charm, respectability and religious authority proves so irresistible that he is eventually promised the hand of...

Angélique et Cléante se sont promis l'un à l'autre… Argan, père autoritaire, en a décidé autrement : sa fille Angélique épousera un médecin qui le soignera de toutes ses maladies imaginaires. Comment amener ce faux malade à se ranger du côté de l'amour vrai ? Toinette et Béralde y travaillent,...

Édition enrichie (Préface, notes, dossier, lexique, chronologie et bibliographie) «Monsieur Jourdain : Et comme l'on parle, qu'est-ce que c'est donc que cela ? Maître de philosophie : De la prose. Monsieur Jourdain : Quoi ? Quand je dis : «Nicole apportez-moi mes pantoufles et me donnez...