by Molière, Hubert Carrier · Hachette · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782010178795
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«Les Femmes Savantes» is Molière's five-act comedy, published by Hachette in paperback (191 pages, in French).
The play satirises the intellectual pretentiousness of a bourgeois family obsessed with philosophy and science. Philaminte, Armande and Bélise despise common sense and rule the household according to their learned whims, while Chrysale tries to impose reason; the plot resolves around a marriage and an inheritance, with dialogues in alexandrines that ridicule false erudition.
School edition from the Classiques Hachette collection with complete text. Play premiered at the Palais-Royal theatre on 11 March 1672.
Intended for secondary school students and for readers who want to approach classic French theatre in its original language.
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".
