UPDATED EDITION MOLIÈRE
MOLIÈRE
BIOGRAPHY Jean Baptiste Poquelin Born to a well-off bourgeois family Studied law and then went into family upholstery business Left to become actor in traveling troupe
ITALIAN FARCE Publicly popular style Sought to emulate Sganarelle, ou le cocu imaginaire (1660) Some the plots were outlined but actors could improvise lines
WORKS Dom Garcie de Navarre (1661) LÉcole des Maris (1661) Les Fâcheux (1661) LÉcole des femmes (1662)
WORKS Dom Juan (1665) Le Misanthrope (1666) Le bourgeois gentilhomme (1670)
TARTUFFE OU LIMPOSTEUR
1673 LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE
CONCLUSION Success with support from the crown Portrayed common human faults Master of comedy Still performed today
SOURCE Walker, Hallam. Molière Updated Edition. Boston: Twayne, 1990.