Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more. 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. His influence is such that the French language is often referred to as the "language of Molière".
The Miser
In a whirlwind of comedic chaos, a father's insatiable greed ignites a battle of wills, threatening to extinguish true love and familial bonds.
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The School for Husbands
In a world of arranged marriages and guarded women, two men clash over their opposing views on love, leading to hilarious mishaps and revealing the absurdities of control and freedom.
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The Flying Doctor (Le Médecin Volant)
To escape a forced marriage, a clever couple uses a bumbling servant in disguise to hilariously fake an illness and win true love's freedom.
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The Pretentious Young Ladies
Two young women obsessed with appearing sophisticated and cultured reject genuine suitors, only to be hilariously fooled by a clever disguise, revealing the absurdity of their shallow desires.
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The Shopkeeper Turned Gentleman
A rich man's desperate pursuit of nobility leads him down a path of laughable blunders, revealing the foolishness of social climbing.
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The Imaginary Invalid
A man’s fake illness leads to hilarious family drama and a battle for true love against a ridiculous arranged marriage.
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The Impostures of Scapin
** With cunning schemes and mistaken identities, a wily servant orchestrates love and reconciliation, turning family drama into uproarious comedy.
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The Love-Tiff
Jealousy and mistaken identities spark a hilarious whirlwind of romantic chaos as a young lover struggles with doubt and rivals.
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The Countess of Escarbagnas
In a world of big wigs and high airs, watch as a status-obsessed countess learns that true love and happiness might be closer than she thinks.
By Molière
Psyche
In a world where divine jealousy clashes with mortal beauty, a young woman finds love in the most unexpected place, defying a vengeful goddess and changing her destiny forever.
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The Blunderer
** In a whirlwind of mistaken plans and comical mishaps, a young lover and his sly servant try to outwit a rival for the affections of a charming woman.
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The Jealousy of le Barbouillé (La Jalousie du Barbouillé)
A jealous husband's crazy suspicions and his wife's clever tricks lead to a series of comical disasters.
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The Middle-Class Gentleman
A wealthy man's desperate attempts to climb the social ladder lead to hilarious mishaps and expose the ridiculous side of wanting to be someone you're not.
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Monsieur De Pourceaugnac
In a whirlwind of mistaken identities and medical mockery, a naive man's pursuit of marriage turns into a hilarious spectacle of deception and social satire.
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Tartuffe; Or, The Hypocrite
In a world turned upside down by deceit, a family must unite to expose a fraud disguised as a man of God before their lives are ruined.
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The Bores: A Comedy in Three Acts
A man's pursuit of love is hilariously sabotaged by a never-ending parade of self-absorbed and irritating characters.
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The Learned Women
In a house turned upside down by a mother's obsession with knowledge, two sisters find themselves caught between intellectual pursuits and the chaotic desires of the heart.
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The Magnificent Lovers (Les Amants magnifiques)
Royal rivalries ignite as princes clash for love and a general dares to dream, until a goddess intervenes, rewriting the rules of romance in a world obsessed with status.
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Sganarelle, or, the Self-Deceived Husband
A comically insecure husband's world turns upside down as his mind conjures up rivals and betrayals, leading to a hilarious unraveling of assumptions and misplaced trust.
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Tartuffe; Or, The Hypocrite
In a house turned upside down by deceit, a family battles a religious imposter to reclaim their lives from his manipulative grasp.
By Molière