by Molière · Ediciones Orbis, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788440222527
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«Tartufo; El avaro» is a theatre volume bringing together two comedies by Molière, published by Ediciones Orbis in hardback (205 pages, in Spanish).
Tartufo satirises false devotion: an impostor gains the trust of a bourgeois. El avaro portrays avarice through Harpagón, whose greed conditions his family. Both plays use irony and comic intrigue to criticise hypocrisy and avarice in seventeenth-century French society.
Published in 1998 in the collection «El Gran Teatro del Mundo», with a translation by Enrique Azcoaga.
Aimed at readers of classical theatre and literature students working on Molière's comedies.
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".
