The Blunderer Author:Moliere In the month of November 1658 _The Blunderer_ was played for the first time in Paris, where it obtained a great and well-deserved success. Before this comedy appeared the French stage was chiefly filled with plays full of intrigue, but with scarcely any attempt to delineate character or manners. In this piece the plot is carried on, partly in im... more »itation of the Spanish taste, by a servant, Mascarille, who is the first original personage Moliere has created; he is not a mere imitation of the valets of the Italian or classical comedy; he has not the coarseness and base feelings of the servants of his contemporaries . . .« less