D om Juan vient de quitter sa femme pour tenter d''enlever à son futur époux une jeune fiancée trop éprise de son prétendant pour que l''idée ne lui vienne pas de troubler leur bonheur. Puis il jette
M. FILERIN : N'avez-vous point de honte, Messieurs, de montrer si peu de prudence oe... Je n'en parle pas pour mon intérêt ; car, Dieu merci, j'ai déjà établi mes petites affaires. Qu'il vente, qu'il pleuve, qu'il grêle, ceux qui sont morts sont morts, et j'ai de quoi me passer des vivants ; mais enfin toutes ces disputes ne valent rien pour la médecine. Puisque le Ciel nous fait la grâce que, depuis tant de siècles, on demeure infatué de nous, ne désabusons point les hommes, profitons de leur sottise le plus doucement que nous pourrons et soyons de concert auprès des malades pour nous attribuer les heureux succès de la maladie, et rejeter sur la nature toutes les bévues de notre art. (L'Amour médecin, acte III, scène première.)
Drama Classics: The Worlds Great Plays at a Great Little PriceMolieres comic masterpiece about an irreclaimable hypocrite - one of the most famous French plays of all time.The pious Tartuffe is lodging with Orgon and his family, ingratiating himself with both his host and his hosts mother to such a degree that both are blinded to his true rather less virtuous designs. Like marrying Orgons daughter Mariane, whilst seducing his wife, Elmire.This English version of Tartuffe, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and introduced by Martin Sorrell.
Drama Classics: The Worlds Great Plays at a Great Little PriceMolieres most-admired comedy of manners, about a man whose quickness to criticise the flaws in others, and in himself, leads him into deep trouble.Alceste, the misanthrope, hates all mankind, and despairs of its hypocrisy and falseness. He believes that the world could be perfected if people were more honest with each other.But when his honesty starts to make him enemies, and the target of malicious gossips, it is his world and his life which suffer.The Misanthrope, or the Cantankerous Lover (Le Misanthrope ou lAtrabilaire amoureux) was first performed in 1666 at the Theatre du Palais-Royal, Paris.This English version, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.
Drama Classics: The Worlds Great Plays at a Great Little PriceMolieres classic farce, Le Malade Imaginaire, in a fresh and performable translation.The imaginary invalid Argan is so obsessed with his health that he fails to notice what is happening around him in his own family. His scheming wife and loving daughter are finally revealed to him in their true light by Argans brother, who poses as a quack doctor and suggests he feigns death to test their loyalty.This English version of Molieres The Hypochondriac, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and introduced by Martin Sorrell.
Drama Classics: The Worlds Great Plays at a Great Little PriceMolieres story of a covetous old miser, obsessively protecting his hoard of gold and neglecting his long-suffering children.Harpagon is obsessed with the wealth he has amassed and always ready to save expenses. Now a widower, he has a son, Cleante, and a daughter, Elise. Although he is over sixty, he is attempting to marry his sons own sweetheart, Mariane.But it seems that Harpagons pinchpenny paranoia is finally catching up with him his gold is missing, and this time it might really have disappeared for good...The Miser was first performed in 1668, at the theatre of the Palais-Royal, Paris.This English version, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classic series, is translated and introduced by Martin Sorrell.
Magdelon et Cathos, deux provinciales éprises de passions nobles et de bons mots, cherchent a Paris le grand amour et les échanges élevés découverts dans les livres. Mais quand Gorgibus, père de Magdelon et oncle de Cathos, organise une rencontre avec deux prétendants choisis pour elles, les deux jeunes femmes les ridiculisent de telle façon qu'ils échafaudent une vengeance commune.Cette comédie en un acte et en prose, la première de Molière, épingle avec férocité les ridicules de la préciosité, de l'arrivisme et de l'affectation bourgeoise.
