the misanthrope tartuffe and other plays molière

Université d'Orléans, he abandoned his social class andįamily's plans for his future for the theatre. Had a strict upbringing, but he also received a solid education in theĬlassics of Latin and Greek literature.

Molière studied until 1639 with Jesuits at the Collège Molière's father was a descendant of a long TheĪn old bourgeois family, perhaps originally of Scottish origin. Their house is thought to have been on the Rue St Honore. MarieĬressé gave birth in it to her first son, Jean-Babtiste, and five moreĬhildren she died when Jean-Babtiste was ten. Had olive green wool curtains, decorated with silk and lace. Their matrimonial bed was made of walnut and it Prosperous upholsterer and furniture merchant, and Marie Cressé, whose Was born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in Paris, the son of Jean Poquelin, a Would be well-night useless, since their chief purpose is to make usīear with patience the injustice of our fellows.' (from Le Misanthrope, 1666) Integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues Shakespeare, Molière was an actor-manager, but his plays were comedies Hypocrite, Harpagon, the miser, and Alceste, the misanthrope. Which, attacking hypocrisy and vice, he created characters that haveīecome immortal types, such as the hypochondriac Argan, Tartuffe, the Misanthrope (1666, The Misanthrope), L'Avare (1668, The (1662, School for Wives), Tartuffe, ou, L'imposteur (1664,

Molière (1622-1673) - pseudonym of JEAN BAPTISTE A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

The misanthrope tartuffe and other plays molière