1622-1673

Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.

Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary.

Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Moliere.

An English translation of seventeenth-century French playwright Molie?re's play about a man in love with a woman who is the embodiment of all that he abhors.

Presents English translations of two plays by seventeenth-century French playwright Moli?re, including "The Misanthrope," the story of a man who loves a woman who is the embodiement of all that he abhors; and "Tartuffe," which tells of a wealthy, middle-aged bigot who is conned by Tartuffe into handing over his fortune and his daughter.

Collection of seven plays by the seventeenth-century French author, representing the many facets of his writing talents.

A collection of seven plays by social satirist and playwright Moli?re.

Moli?ere is a down-and-out actor and playwright who is up to his ears in debt. The wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt so that Moli?ere's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise.

Includes "The Misanthrope," a verse comedy in five acts, along with six other plays written by the seventeenth-century French author in the later years of his career.