Nick Hern Books, 1997

Drama Classics

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 27, Roles: Total (14), Female (4), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...Molière’s classic play retells the myth of Don Juan, the infamous womaniser with few morals and a scorn for religion. Casanova Don Juan exasperates his sensible servant, Sganarelle, with his compromising behaviour. His...

Oberon Books, 2004

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 28, Roles: Total (13), Female (3), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

..."He's a beast I tell you - a real animal" What happens when you've lived only for pleasure, and you finally run out of time? When you've broken every promise, outraged every decency and slept your way through half...

Nick Hern Books, 2005

Drama Classics

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 27, Roles: Total (11), Female (3), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...Molière’s three-act farce was first staged at the Palais-Royal in Paris in 1671. Scapino, or the Trickster, is an archetypal figure used in commedia dell’arte, a theatre practice originating in Italy whose name can be roughly translated...

Faber and Faber, 2018

Faber Drama

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 62, Roles: Total (13), Female (5), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...French billionaire Orgon, relocated to Los Angeles with his family, has fallen under the spell of Tartuffe, a radical American evangelist. So comprehensively is he hoodwinked that Tartuffe looks set to steal his fortune, drive away his son,...

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...Initially banned in France by King Louis, Molière's celebrated social satire Tartuffe exposes false piety and hypocrisy in the Catholic Church. When a pious fraud worms his way into a wealthy family and manipulates the patriarch into giving...

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...In 17th Century Sicily, a clever valet named Mascarille tries to help his boss Lélie win the girl of his dreams -- only to find that Lélie is a monumental dunce who ruins every one of his intricate schemes. Undaunted, Mascarille invents...

Nick Hern Books, 1994

Drama Classics

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 35, Roles: Total (12), Female (4), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...The Hypochondriac is a comédie-ballet, a genre of French drama mixing spoken scenes with interludes of music and dance. It would turn out to be Molière’s last play. Ironically, he collapsed onstage during his fourth performance in the lead...

Nick Hern Books, 1996

Drama Classics

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 28, Roles: Total (13), Female (5), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...The Learned Ladies is one of Molière’s most popular comedies. Written in five acts the play is a satire on academic pretention and female education. Henriette and Clitandre are in love and planning to marry. Henriette...

Nick Hern Books, 2005

Drama Classics

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Acts: 5, Roles: Total (11), Female (3), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...Arguably one of Molière’s best-known and most loved plays, The Misanthrope is a classic comedy that satirises the hypocrisies of French aristocratic society. Alceste, the misanthrope, hates all mankind and despairs of its...

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...This timeless comedy of manners is considered one of Molière’s most probing and mature works. While it’s still an exemplar of 16th century farce, Molière went beyond his usual comic inventiveness to create a world of rich, complex...

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...Razor-sharp wit inflames a competitive game of survival in the salons of 17th century France where, in this world of "finest appearances," one man's blunt honesty shatters his society's delicate web of manners. Often considered...

Nick Hern Books, 2004

Drama Classics

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 32, Roles: Total (15), Female (3), Male (12), Unassigned (0)

...The Miser is a five-act comedy written in prose, which makes it a fairly unusual addition to Molière’s oeuvre. The play premiered at the Palais-Royal in Paris in 1668 and was not an instant success, perhaps in part due to the decision...

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...Molière wrote some of the most durable and penetrating comedies of all time. The Imaginary Cuckold and The School for Husbands are two of his grand farces of marriage and misunderstanding, one set in Paris and the other in the provinces...

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...In this biting comedy of errors, the hapless Arnolphe is undone by his own double dealing and double standards. The School for Wives was first performed at the Palais Royal theatre on December 26, 1662, and is considered by many...