Author : Jean-Baptiste Moliere
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 47,65 MB
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0698196678
Seven plays by the genius of French theater. Including The Ridiculous Precieuses, The School for Husbands, The School for Wives, Don Juan, The Versailles Impromptu, and The Critique of the School for Wives, this collection showcases the talent of perhaps the greatest and best-loved French playwright. Translated and with an Introduction by Donald M. Frame With a Foreword by Virginia Scott And a New Afterword by Charles Newell
Author : Jean-Baptiste Moliere
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 50,59 MB
Release : 2004-05-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 014191338X
Molière combined all the traditional elements of comedy - wit, slapstick, spectacle and satire - to create richly sophisticated and enduringly popular dramas. The Miser is the story of Harpagon, a mean-spirited old man who becomes obsessed with making money out of the marriage of his children, while The Hypochondriac, another study in obsession, is a brilliant satire on the medical profession. The School for Wives, in which an ageing domestic tyrant is foiled in his plans to marry his young ward, provoked such an outcry that Molière followed it with The School for Wives Criticized - a witty retort to those who disapproved of the play's supposed immorality. And while Don Juan is the darkest and most tragic of all the plays in this collection, it still mocks the soullessness of the skinflint with scathing irony.
Author : Phil Porter
Publisher : Oberon Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 11,50 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781786820273
Fanatical about protecting his wealth, the paranoid Harpagon (Griff Rhys Jones) suspects all of trying to filch his fortune, and will go to any length to protect it. A matchmaker motivated only by money, he sets his sights on wealthy spouses for his children, so his riches are safe from their grubby hands. As true feelings and identities are revealed will Harpagon allow his children to follow their heart, or will his love of gold prove all-consuming? Passion and purse strings go head to head in this rip roaring comedy, by France's greatest dramatist.
Author : Molière
Publisher : Branden Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780828320382
Moliere is considered the Shakespeare of France. Moliere's plays are enacted throughout the world in virtually every language, as much today as ever.
Author : Ainsworth
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,60 MB
Release : 1864
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Author : Molière
Publisher :
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 1894
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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822219996
THE STORY: The widower Harpagon, so cheap he'd swipe the pennies off a dead man's eyes, rules his roost with a tight, iron fist. His unhappy, rebellious children, Cléante and Elise, are afraid to tell him of their romantic attachments: Cléante has
Author : Plautus
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 2004-07-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0141911220
One of the supreme comic writers of the Roman world, Plautus (c.254-184 BC), skilfully adapted classic Greek comic models to the manners and customs of his day. This collection features a varied selection of his finest plays, from the light-hearted comedy Pseudolus, in which the lovesick Calidorus and his slave try to liberate his lover from her pimp, to the more subversive The Prisoners, which raises serious questions about the role of slavery. Also included are The Brothers Menaechmus, which formed the prototype for Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, and The Pot of Gold, whose old miser Euclio is a glorious study in avarice. Throughout, Plautus breathes new, brilliant life into classic comic types - including deceitful twins, scheming slaves, bitter old men and swaggering soldiers - creating an entertaining critique of Roman life and values.
Author : Liz Lochhead
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781854596802
A new comedy from 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist.'Scotland on Sunday
Author : Molière
Publisher : Tredition Classics
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 2011-11
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ISBN : 9783842465138
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion.
