Eight Plays By Moliere, Including The Precious Damsel, Tratuffe, The Misanthrope, The School for Wives, The Physician in Spite of Himself & The Would-be Gentleman

Although Molière's comedy is from long ago, some of the characters still seem fresh, though obviously farcical. The charlatans, hypocrites, and buffoons that people his plays are types that recur throughout history. His heavy use of stock characters might strike a 21st century reader as hopelessly

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simplistic, but in the broad comedy of his style, it works better than many other writers of the same time period. A must read for anyone interested in theatre enough to explore its history.

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