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Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poqueli
Title: Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poqueli
Category: Literature / English
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Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poqueli
Molière whose real name was Jean Baptiste Poquelin, composed 12 of the most durable and penetratingly satirical full-length comedies of all time, some in rhyming verse, some in prose, as well as six shorter farces and comedies. Jean-Baptiste Poquelin was born in Paris on January 15, 1622. His father was one of eight valets de chambre tapissiers who tended the king's furniture and upholstery, so the young Poquelin received every advantage a boy could wish for. He
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buried in the Saint Joseph Cemetery under the cover of darkness.
Molière left behind a body of work that not only changed the face of French classical comedy, but has gone on to influence the work of other dramatists the world over. The greatest of his plays include The School for Husbands (1661), The School for Wives (1662), The Misanthrope (1666), The Doctor in Spite of Himself (1666), Tartuffe (1664,1667,1669), The Miser (1668), Le Bourgeois Gentleman (1670), and The Imaginary Invalid (1673).
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