Delphi Complete Works of Molière (Illustrated)

France’s answer to Shakespeare, the seventeenth century playwright Molière wrote comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets and poetry. 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. He invented a new style that employed a double vision of normal and abnormal seen in relation to each other—the comedy of the true opposed to the specious, the intelligent set against the pedantic. Though the sacred and secular authorities often combined against him, Molière’s genius finally emerged to win him the status of a world author. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Molière’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare plays and poetry, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)




* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Molière’s life and works

* Concise introductions to the major works

* All 33 dramatic works, with individual contents tables

* Translations by Charles Heron Wall, Henri van Laun, Curtis Hidden Page and A. R. Waller

* Features rare dramas appearing for the first time in digital publishing

* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts

* Excellent formatting of the texts

* Rare poetry translations available in no other collection

* Easily locate the poems or plays you want to read

* Special criticism section, with four essays evaluating Molière’s contribution to literature, including Voltaire’s seminal work

* Features two biographies — discover Molière’s literary life

* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres




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CONTENTS:




The Dramatic Works

The Flying Doctor

The Jealousy of le Barbouillé

The Blunderer; or, The Counterplots

The Love-Tiff

The Pretentious Young Ladies

Sganarelle; or, The Imaginary Cuckold

Don Garcia of Navarre or the Jealous Prince

The School for Husbands

The Mad; or, The Bores

The School for Wives

Critique of the School for Wives

The Versailles Impromptu

The Forced Marriage

The Princess of Elid

Tartuffe; or, The Impostor

Don Juan; or, The Stone Banquet

Love is the Best Doctor

The Misanthrope; or, The Cantankerous Lover

The Physician in Spite of Himself

Mélicerte

Comic Pastoral

The Sicilian; or, Love the Painter

Amphitryon

George Dandin; or, The Abashed Husband

The Miser; or, The School for Lies

Monsieur de Pourceaugnac

The Magnificent Lovers

The Middle-Class Gentleman

Psyche

The Impostures of Scapin

The Countess of Escarbagnas

The Learned Ladies

The Imaginary Invalid




The Poetry

The Poems of Molière




The Criticism

On Comedy by Voltaire

On the English Comedy by Voltaire

Molière by William Cleaver Wilkinson

To Monsieur de Molière by Andrew Lang




The Biographies

Molière by Andrew Lang

The Wife of Molière by H. Noel Williams




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