molie?re

Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary.

Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Moliere.

An English translation of seventeenth-century French playwright Molie?re's play about a man in love with a woman who is the embodiment of all that he abhors.