Molière

Les Précieuses ridicules

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Madelon et Cathos, deux jeunes provinciales, arrivent à Paris en quête d'amour et de jeux d'esprit. Gorgibus, père de Ma…

Tartuffe

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Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greates…

La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas

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La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas est une comédie-ballet de Molière (musique de Charpentier et ballets de Beauchamp), commandée…

The Miser

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The Miser is a comedy of manners about a rich moneylender named Harpagon. His feisty children long to escape from his penny-pinching househo…

The Misanthrope

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Alceste, the misanthrope, hates everyone including himself. But unlike in many pure farces with their cliche stock characters, the character…

George Dandin, ou Le mari confondu

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George Dandin soupçonne sa femme de le tromper avec un galant. Mais il a beau s'enrager et essayer de convaincre ses beaux-parents de…

The Imaginary Invalid

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The Imaginary Invalid (French: Le Malade imaginaire) is a three-act comédie-ballet by the French playwright Molière. It was fi…

The Learned Women

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Two young people, Henriette and Clitandre, are in love, but in order to marry, they must overcome an obstacle: the attitude of Henriette's f…

The School for Husbands

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In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands (this one) and then The School for Wives. "The central situations …

The School for Wives

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In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands and then The School for Wives (this one). "The central situations …

The Bourgeois Gentleman

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The Bourgeois Gentleman of the title is a middle-class social climber, assured that by learning all the arts of a true and noble gentleman, …

Don Juan, or The Feast with the Statue

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Don Juan "contains, perhaps, more severe attacks upon hypocrisy than does even Tartuffe. It depicts the hero as a man who, rich, noble,…

Love is the Best Doctor

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Four most fashionable doctors are called in by Sganarelle to cure his daughter, but instead they argue about everything and Sganarelle is dr…

Psyche

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This is a very different Moliere, not the usual satire of everyday life. It is instead a classical tale based on the ancient story of Psyche…

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme


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An adaptation by Harry McFadden broadcast on the NBC radio series GREAT PLAYS  on December 18, 1938.

The Physician In Spite of Himself

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The Physician In Spite of Himself … is written in a most unbounded spirit of mirth, the matrimonial breezes wafting a certain amount of refr…

The Love-Tiff

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"The characters are well delineated, and fathers, lovers, mistresses, and servants all move about amidst a complication of errors from …

The Impromptu of Versailles

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The setup here is that Moliere and his troupe have been sent for by the King to come perform at Versailles. But instead of the piece they ha…

The Magnificent Lovers

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"The King [Louis XIV], who will have nothing but what is magnificent in all he undertakes, wished to give his court an entertainment wh…

Tartuffe


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An adaptation of Molière's classic play broadcast on the NBC radio series GREAT PLAYS  on December 19, 1939.

The Impostures of Scapin

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Scapin is a liar, a schemer, an arrogant meddler who thinks he can make people do anything. And yet sometimes he acts in the cause of good. …

The Blunderer, or The Counterplots

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A very early Moliere. From the Translator: "In this piece the plot is carried on ... by a servant, Mascarille, who is the first origina…

Amphitryon

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"The history of Amphitryon and Alcmene, or rather the myth of the birth of Hercules, is certainly very old, and is to be found in the l…

Monsieur De Pourceaugnac

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'Monsieur de Pourceaugnac', acted on October 6, 1669, is nothing but a farce. But Molière excels in farce as well as in higher comedy…

The Bores

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Moliere: "Never was any Dramatic performance so hurried as this; and it is a thing, I believe, quite new, to have a comedy planned, fin…

Princess of Elis

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In the month of May 1664, Louis XIV entertained the Queen-mother, Anne of Austria, and his own wife , Maria Theresa, with a brilliant and su…

The Doctor In Spite Of Himself


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Two old-time radio adaptations of Moliere's classic comedy Le Medicin malgre lui : 1) adapted by Ernest Kinoy and broadcast on the NBC UNIVE…

Don Garcia of Navarre, or the Jealous Prince

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Nothing can be more unlike The Pretentious Young Ladies or Sganarelle than Molière's Don Garcia of Navarre. The Théâtre …

The School for Husbands


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An adaptation by Lawrence Langner broadcast on the NBC radio series GREAT PLAYS  on April 2, 1938.

Two Pastorals: an Heroic and a Comic

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Moliere, on the way to the Ballet of the Muses, a court festival, started to write a new Heroic Pastoral. "He chose for his subject a s…

George Dandin: or The Abashed Husband

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"The treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle having been ratified ... and peace being assured ... Louis XIV resolved to give a festival in his favori…

The Imaginary Invalid


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An adaptation by Richard MacDonald broadcast on the NBC radio series GREAT PLAYS  on December 15, 1940.