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The Miser and Other Plays
The Miser and Other Plays
Author: Jean-Baptiste Moliere, John Wood (Translator)
This volume of Moliere's dramatic commentaries on society presents The Miser, a misguided hero who obsessively disrupts the lives of those around him. The School for Wives is newly translated for this edition and was fiercely denounced as impious and vulgar. Moliere's response to his detractors became The School for Wive...  more ». Even more alarming to critics was his version of Don Juan. In The Hypochondriac, he produced an outrageous expose of medicine.

The would-be gentleman --

That scoundrel Scapin --

The miser --

Love's the best doctor --

Don Juan
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ISBN-13: 9780140440362
ISBN-10: 0140440364
Publication Date: 2/28/1953
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
Book Type: Paperback
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