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Monsieur De Pourceaugnac

English translation · Translated by Charles Heron Wall

by Molière

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A provincial suitor comes to Paris to marry a girl who loves someone else, and her friends set out to make him regret the trip. This is Molière's comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, first acted on 6 October 1669 and given here in Charles Heron Wall's English prose, with a short introduction and notes. It begins with a serenade and ballet entries. The cast includes the scheming Neapolitan Sbrigani, two doctors and an apothecary. Wall's introduction calls it a farce and points to its jabs at physicians; Molière himself played the title part.

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Molière

Molière, born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-1673), was the leading comic playwright and actor of the age of Louis XIV. His satires of hypocrisy, pretension, and folly, among them Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, and The Miser, remain cornerstones of the French theatrical tradition.

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Author: Molière
Reading time: About 1 hour
Pages: 51
Language: English
Genre: French Classics
Formats: PDF, EPUB, Read online