U P DAT E D E D I T I O N

MOLIÈRE

1622-1673

MOLIÈRE

BIOGRAPHY

• Jean Baptiste Poquelin

• Born to a well-off bourgeois family

• Studied law and then went into

family upholstery business

• Left to become actor in traveling

troupe

ITALIAN FARCE

• Publicly popular style

• Sought to emulate

• ‘Sganarelle, ou le cocu imaginaire’

(1660)

• Some the plots were outlined but

actors could improvise lines

WORKS

•Dom Garcie de Navarre(1661)

• L’École des Maris(1661)

• Les Fâcheux(1661)

• L’École des femmes(1662)

WORKS

•Dom Juan(1665)

• Le Misanthrope(1666)

• Le bourgeois gentilhomme (1670)

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TARTUFFE OU L’IMPOSTEUR

1673

LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE

CONCLUSION

• Success with support from the crown

• Portrayed common human faults

•Master of comedy

• Still performed today

SOURCE

•Walker, Hallam. Molière Updated Edition. Boston: Twayne, 1990.