The Miser and Other Plays

Author: Jean-Baptiste Moliere
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014191338X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 311

Book Description
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.

Tartuffe and Other Plays

Author: Jean-Baptiste Moliere
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698196678
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 449

Book Description
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

The Miser

Author: Phil Porter
Publisher: Oberon Books
ISBN: 9781786820273
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
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.

Molière, Four Plays

Author: Molière
Publisher: Branden Books
ISBN: 9780828320382
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348

Book Description
Moliere is considered the Shakespeare of France. Moliere's plays are enacted throughout the world in virtually every language, as much today as ever.

The Miser and Other Plays

Author: Molière
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780140440362
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
Molïre was the stage name of French playwright Jean Baptiste Poquelin, known for satire and controversy.

The Miser

Author:
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822219996
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description
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

The Miser's Daughter

Author: Ainsworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description

Johnny Tenorio and Other Plays

Author: Carlos Morton
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611921885
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
A collection of the most recent and celebrated plays by the prolific Chicano playwright, including the following: Johnny Tenorio (1983), The Savior (1986), The Miser of Mexico (1989) and Pancho Diablo (1987). Morton is the winner of the National Latino Playwriting Contest (1986) and numerous other awards and grants. Time magazine called his work Òdidactic, polemical, yet often fiercely funnyÉÓ

Misery Guts and Tartuffe

Author: Liz Lochhead
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9781854596802
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
A new comedy from 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist.'Scotland on Sunday

L'avare. English

Author: Molière
Publisher: Tredition Classics
ISBN: 9783842465138
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
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