by Jean-Baptiste Moliere · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140440362
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«The Miser and Other Plays» is Molière's collection of comedies, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Collection of five comedies by Molière that satirize the customs and vices of his era: the miser Harpagon, obsessed with his fortune to the point of disrupting the lives of those around him; the bourgeois who aspires to be a gentleman; the tricks of Scapin; and the figure of Don Juan. Social satire from seventeenth-century French theatre.
Originally published in 1953; translation and introduction by John Wood. The five plays included are «The Miser», «The Would-be Gentleman», «That Scoundrel Scapin», «Love's the Best Doctor» and «Don Juan».
For readers of classical theatre and French literature, as well as students wanting to explore seventeenth-century satirical comedy.
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".
