by Jean-Baptiste Molière · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253088868
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«Le Malade imaginaire» is Molière's stage comedy, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (240 pages, in French).
Argan, a hypochondriac who believes he is seriously ill, goes through apothecary bills and lets himself be treated by doctors who see him only as a source of income. His maid Toinette knows his ailments are imaginary and tries to open his eyes. The comedy, with music and dances, satirises seventeenth-century medicine and human credulity.
Play premiered in 1673 at the Palais-Royal, with Molière as Argan; the author died after the fourth performance. Edition with introduction, notes and commentary by Bénédicte Louvat-Molozay.
For students of French and lovers of classical theatre; also used as school reading in France.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed at the Comédie-Française more often than those of any other playwright today. His influence is such that the French language is often referred to as the "language of Molière".
