Summary
Moliere: Selected Comedies (Tartuffe / Misanthrope)
Library of Jutarnji list. The greatest works, 20. Translated from French by: Slavko Ježić. - Tartuffe - Misanthrope Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known as Moliere (Paris, January 15, 1622 - Paris, February 17, 1673), French screenwriter, writer, one of the greats of humorous satire. He was born into the family of a wealthy king's upholsterer, graduated in law, but gave up his legal career and became an actor. In Paris, he founded the theater company L'Illustre Theater (Famous Theatre), for which he adapted Italian comedies and with which he traveled around the province for 12 years. In the beginning, he writes farces, and his first comedies are in verses. He wrote a number of pieces in prose and verse. He is a representative of classicism. He ridiculed the society of that time, class prejudices, the corruption of the aristocracy and the greediness of the bourgeoisie, and he did not hesitate to condemn the hypocritical Catholic clergy. Moliere developed the Italian comedy of intrigue into a social comedy and a comedy of manners with a tragicomic background in which the magnitude of the comic reaches the dimensions of the tragic. In 1660, he took over the Royal Theater in Paris.
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