17th CenturyPoets and Playwrights

Molière: The Comedies

A hypocrite, a miser, a snob and a man who thinks he is sick: comedy that laughs people out of their follies.

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Volume: 31 of the 1990 set
Author: Molière (1622–1673)
Work: The School for Wives, Tartuffe, Don Juan, The Miser, The Would-Be Gentleman, The Would-Be Invalid 1662–1673

Ideas: Comedy and satire What a human being is Ambition and pride

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