Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (15 January 1622 – 17 February 1673)
Complete List of Plays in Chronological Order
Complete List of Plays in Chronological Order
1646? La Jalousie du Barbouillé = The Jealous Husband (5m, 2w, 1x)
1655 L’Etourdi = The Bungler (8m, 2w, 1x, extras)
1656 Le Dépit amoureux =Lovers’ Quarrels (Wilbur trans.) (7m, 4w, 1x)
1659 Les Précieuses ridicules = The Pretentious Young Ladies (6m, 4w, extras)
1659 Le Médecin volant = The Flying Doctor (4 m, 2 w, 1x)
1660 Sganarelle, ou le Cocu imaginaire = Sganarelle, or The Imaginary Cuckold (6m, 3w, 2x)
1661 Dom Garcie de Navarre, ou le Prince Jaloux = Don Garcia of Navarre, or The Jealous
Prince (5m, 3w, 1x), called a comédie héroique, a precursor to Le Misanthrope
1661 Les Fâcheux = The Bores (actors and dancers for 3 ballets within the comedy)
1661 L’Ecole des maris = School for Husbands (4m, 3w, 2x)
1662 L’Ecole des femmes = School for Wives (6m, 2w, 1x)
1663 La Critique de “L’Ecole des femmes” = Critique of The School for Wives
1663 L’Impromptu de Versailles = The Rehearsal at Versailles (3m, 3w, extras)
1664 Le Mariage forcé = The Forced Marriage (7m, 3w, 1boy)
1664 La Princesse d’Elide = Princess Elida (7m, 4w, extras)
1664 Tartuffe, ou l’Imposteur = Tartuffe, or The Imposter (5m, 5w, 1x)
1665 Dom Juan, ou le Festin de pierre = Don Juan, or The Stone Guest (9m, 4w, 2x, extras)
1665 L’Amour médecin The Doctor in Love (6m, 4w, 4x, extras)
1666 Le Misanthrope = The Misanthrope (8m, 3w)
1666 Le Médecin malgré lui = Doctor in Spite of Himself (8m, 3w)
1666 Mélicerte, comédie pastorale héroique (6m, 4w)
1667 Le Sicilien, ou l’Amour peintre = The Sicilian, or the Love Artist (5m, 1w, dancers)
1668 Amphitryon (7m, 3w, 2x)
1668 Georges Dandin, ou le Mari confondu = George Dandin, Confused Husband (5m, 3w)
1668 L’Avare = The Miser (7m, 4w, extras)
1669 Monsieur de Pourceaugnac = Mister Pigge (4m, 3w, extras, dancers)
1670 Les amants magnifiques = The Magnificent Lovers (7m, 4w, 1x)
1670 Le Bourgeois gentilhomme = The Would-be Gentleman (7m, 3w, 3x, dancers)
1671 Psyché, tragédie-ballet (8m, 6w, 2x)
1671 Les Fourberies de Scapin = Scapino’s Schemes (6m, 3w, 1x)
1671 La Comtesse d’Escarbagnas = The Seductive Countess (5m, 3w, 2x)
1672 Les Femmes savantes = The Learned Ladies (6m, 4w, 2x)
1673 Le Malade imaginaire =The Hypochondriac (7m, 3w, 1girl, 1x)
Molière’s Hybrid Genres Listed by Category
(Some works are adaptable and appear in more than one category)
Plays perfect for young audiences
Le Médecin malgré lui = Doctor in Spite of Himself
Le Mariage forcé = The Forced Marriage
Le Médecin malgré lui = Doctor in Spite of Himself
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme = The Would-be Gentleman
L’Avare = The Miser
Le Malade imaginaire =The Hypochondriac
Comédies-ballets = comedies with music and dance; many are often done as straight plays
Les Fâcheux (1661) = The Boors or The Unwelcome Ones
“The goal in Les Fâcheux was to harmonise the ballet entrées with the comedy; dance played a crucial role in the birth of the genre of comédie-ballet. Its central place in the civilisation of the seventeenth century and the importance accorded to it by Louis XVII are well known; in 1662 the King founded the Academy of Dance.” (Mazouer 112)
Le Mariage forcé (1664) = The Forced Marriage (can also be done as a straight comedy)
Les Plaisirs de l’Ile enchantée and La Princesse d’Elide (1664) = Pleasures of the Enchanted Isle
and Princess Elida, the latter called a comédie galante, both with music by Lully
L’Amour médecin (1665)
Le Ballet des Muses (1666) including Pastorale comique, Mélicerte (comédie pastorale
héroique), and Le Sicilien, ou l’Amour peintre = The Sicilian, or the Love Artist, all with
music by Lully
Georges Dandin, ou le Mari confondu (1668) = The Thwarted Husband. music by Lully
“The entire musical pastorale which enfolds Georges Dandin—which is complete and self-sufficient—can be performed separately from the comedy.” (Mazouer 116)
Monsieur de Pourceaugnac (1669) = Mister Pigge
Les Amants magnifiques (1670) = Magnificent Lovers
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1670) = The Would-be Gentleman, music by Lully
Psyché (1671) tragédie-ballet spectacle with Pierre Corneille, Philippe Quinault, & Jean-
Baptiste Lully
La Comtesse d’Escarbagnas = The Seductive Countess, music by Charpentier
One-act farces
La Jalousie du Barbouillé = The Jealous Husband
Bermel, One-Act Comedies. See below: The Jealous Husband, pp. 15-27. 6m, 2w.
Le Médecin volant = The Flying Doctor
Bermel, One-Act Comedies. See below: The Flying Doctor, pp. 31-44. 5m, 2w.
Short comedies
Les Précieuses ridicules = The Pretentious Young Ladies
Delightful send-up of two girls who have gone overboard to adopt current fashions. Their
boyfriends have their valets (Mascarille is one) dress up in laces, ribbons, and feathers to
court the girls, who are humiliated when they learn that they fell for mere servants.
Bermel, One-Act Comedies. See below: Two Precious Maidens Ridiculed, pp. 47-93.
Wood. See below: Such Foolish Affected Ladies. 6m, 3w, extras.
Sganarelle, ou le Cocu imaginaire = Sganarelle, or The Imaginary Cuckold
Bermel, One-Act Comedies. See below: Sganarelle, or The Imaginary Cuckold, 6m, 3w.
pp. 71-95. verse translation.
Wilbur, Richard, trans. The School for Husbands and The Imaginary Cuckold, or
Sganarelle. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2009. One act, rhymed
couplets. 6m, 3w.
L’Ecole des maris = School for Husbands
Wilbur, Richard, trans. The School for Husbands and The Imaginary Cuckold, or
Sganarelle. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2009. 3 acts, rhymed
couplets. 6m, 3w.
La Critique de “L’Ecole des femmes” = Critique of The School for Wives
L’Impromptu de Versailles = The Rehearsal at Versailles
Bermel, One-Act Comedies. See below: The Rehearsal at Versailles, pp. 97-120. 6m, 6w,
extras. prose
Le Mariage forcé = The Forced Marriage
Bermel, One-Act Comedies. See below: The Forced Marriage, pp. 121-146. 7m, 3w.
L’Amour médecin The Doctor in Love
Georges Dandin, ou le Mari confondu (1668) = The Thwarted Husband (3 acts).
Bermel. The Actor's Molière. See listing below: George Dandin, or the Confounded
Husband, pp. 2-43. 5m, 3w. prose
Full-length comedies and their major translations (for anthologies, see the bibliography at the end of this document)
L’Etourdi = The Bungler
Wilbur, Richard, trans. The Bungler. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2010.
5 acts, 8m, 3w. rhymed couplets. Funny! As Wilbur explains in his intro, this was
Molière's first verse comedy and he kept it in his repertoire--always wildly successful--for the rest of
his life. The hero is a handsome dimwit who unintentionally spoils every one of the intrigues his too-
clever valet Mascarille concocts to help him get the girl. Wilbur's verse translation is very playable.
It's hilarious!
Le Dépit amoureux =Lovers’ Quarrels
Wilbur, Richard, trans. Lovers' Quarrels. New York: Theatre Communications Group,
2009. 5 acts, rhymed couplets. 8m, 4w.
L’Ecole des femmes = School for Wives
Old man sequesters his ward Agnes in hopes of marrying the innocent cutie, but an attractive man
finds her, and together they scheme to outwit her guardian. See below: Lochhead's Educating Agnes.
Bolt, Ranjit, trans. The School for Wives. London: Oberon Books, 1998.
Wilbur, Richard, trans. The School for Wives. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
1971. 5 acts, rhymed couplets. 7m, 2w.
Wilbur, Richard, trans. The School for Wives and The Learned Ladies. San Diego:
Harcourt, 1978.
Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur
Baker, H. and J. Miller, 18th-century translators. Mineola NY: Dover Thrift Edition, 2000.
Congden, Constance, trans. New York: W.W. Norton & Cp., 2009.A verse translation,
with backgrounds, sources, and criticism. Prose.
Gray, Amlin, adapter. Tartuffe, or The Weasel. NY: Dramatists Play Service, 2011.
Thomas, Freyda, translator & adapter. Tartuffe: Born Again. Samuel French. 6m, 5w.
Wilbur, Richard, trans. New York: Dramatists Play Service. 7m, 5w. Verse
Wilbur, Richard, trans. New York: Harcourt Inc., Harvest Book, 1992. rhymed couplets.
Wood, John. See below. prose translation.
Dom Juan, ou le Festin de pierre = Don Juan, or the Stone Guest
Written in prose, gets into some serious thoughts about the pleasures of the now vs. eternity,
rivals Zorilla & Mozart in creation of an original interpretation of the Don Juan character.
Bartlett, Neil, translated and directed. Don Juan. London: Oberon Books, 2004. 10m, 3w.
Edgy British translation.
Wilbur, Richard, translated with an introduction. Don Juan. San Diego: Harcourt, Inc.,
2001. 14m, 3w. Wilbur's verse translations are hands-down the best. BUT Don
Juan was written in prose, so it's less important to choose Wilbur over others.
Le Misanthrope = The Misanthrope
Sometimes regarded as "the French Hamlet," since Alceste is such a contradictory
character: disgusted with shallow society yet in love with the coquettish wealthy widow
Célimène. There's a very funny scene of hypocritical fawning over a mediocre poem.
Bolt, Ranjit. The Grouch: a Modern Version of Le Misanthrope. London: Oberon Books,
2008. Molière's The Misanthrope, about a man who is brutally honest no matter what
offence he causes, is the perfect play for our era of spin, argues Ranjit Bolt, whose new
version is set in the London of today.
Frame, Donald. See listing below. 8m, 3w. Translated into rhymed couplets.
Mulrine, Stephen, trans. The Misanthrope. London: Nick Hern Books.
van Laun, Henri. Dover Thrift Edition. Mineola NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1992, based
on the 1876 translation. 8m, 3w. Royalty free.
Wilbur, Richard. See Bentley below. 8mn, 3w. The best!
Wood, John. See below. pp. 94-142. prose translation.
Le Médecin malgré lui = Doctor in Spite of Himself
This is the play Kip Niven directed for EARTh that started the Molière ball rolling. I just about
fell off my chair with how funny this staged reading was with Martin Buchanan in the title role.
Frame, Donald. See listing below: The Doctor in Spite of Himself, pp. 85-130. 3 acts, 8m,
3w. prose.
Wood, John. See below: The Doctor Despite Himself, pp. 145-180. 8m, 3w.
Amphitryon
Waller, A. R. ISBN 9781482710700. Middletown DE, 2018. 7m, 3w.
Wilbur, Richard. Comedy in Three Acts, 1668. San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1995.
L’Avare = The Miser (5 acts) with elements of commedia dell'arte, dancing pastry cooks! The title
character Harpagon is so cheap he has the same person serve as cook and coachman, changing
cook & coachman clothes back and forth in hilarious comedy. There's also a great role, Frosine,
for an over-the-top comedienne.
Bermel, Actor's Molière, See below: The Miser, pp. 47-109. 8m, 3w.
Frame. See below. 10m, 4w. Doubling possible. Prose.
Les amants magnifiques = The Magnificent Lovers
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme = The Would-be Gentleman
While many of the plays originally written for musical interludes can be staged perfectly well
without the music, this one is probably better with some dancing and prancing. It has the
world-famous scene of Monsieur Jourdain discovering that he has been speaking prose all
his life!
Frame, Donald. See below: The Would-Be Gentleman, pp. 215-294. 5 acts. prose. 11m,
3w, extras.
Les Fourberies de Scapin = Scapino’s Schemes. This is a really funny one with physical comedy.
Really playable commedia dell'arte style for laughs. The cheater cheated!
Dunlop, Frank and Jim Dale, Scapino! NY: Dramatic Publishing, 1985. 10m, 4w.
Gregory, Lady, trans. The Rogueries of Scapin. See below The Kiltartan Molière.
Irwin, Bill and Mark O'Donnell, adapters. Scapin. New York: Dramatists Play Service,
1995. 3 acts. 7m, 3w (flexible casting).
Wall, Charles Heron. The Impostures of Scapin. Project Gutenberg (royalty free):
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8776/8776-h/8776-h.htm
Wood, John. See below: The Michievous Machinations of Scapin, pp. 299-355.
Yalman, Tunc. The Trickeries of Scapin. Dramatists Play Service, 1998.
Les Femmes savantes = The Learned Ladies
Fun at the expense of pretentiously would-be intellectual ladies. Ted Swetz directed MFA
actors in this a couple of seasons ago and audiences ate it up.
Fowlie. See below. 8m, 5w. There are wittier translations.
Frame, Donald. See below: The Learned Woman, pp. 361-428. 5 acts. prose. 8m, 5w.
Wilbur, Richard, trans. The School for Wives and The Learned Ladies. San Diego:
Harcourt, 1978. 5 acts, rhymed couplets. 8m, 5w.
Wood, John. See below: Those Learned Ladies, pp. 258-311.
Le Malade imaginaire =The Hypochondriac
The scene of Dr. Diafoirus and his clueless son is one of the funniest scenes I ever saw at the
Comédie-Française.
Frame, Donald. See below: The Imaginary Invalid, pp. 433-507. 8m, 4w.
van laun, Henry. The Imaginary Invalid. Mineola NY: Dover, 2004, based on the 1899
edition. Royalty free. 8m, 4w in the play without the dance interludes.
Marmur, Mildred. The Imaginary Invalid. In The Genius of the French Theater, ed. Albert
Bermel. New York: Mentor Books, 1961, pp. 41-99.
Plays about Molière or Inspired by His Work
Bulgakov, Mikhail. Molière, or The Cabal of Hypocrites and Don Quixote: Two Plays trans. by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky. New York; Theatre Communications Group, 2017.
Bulgakov's 1929 play is also translated from the Russian as Molière in Spite of Himself by Michael Lessac, 1978.
Dryden, John. Sir Martin Mar-All (1667), a Restoration comedy adaptation of Molière's L'Etourdi. On-line text: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A36685.0001.001?view=toc
Flaherty, Stephen and Lynn Ahrens. The Glorious Ones. 2007. Bawdy musical about a
16th-century commedia dell’arte troupe.
Hampton, Christopher. The Philanthropist. London: Faber & Faber, 1971. A savage take on Molière’s The Misanthrope.
Ives, David. The School for Lies, adapted from The Misanthrope by Molière. New
York: Dramatists Play Service, 2013. 6m, 3w.
Jackson, Nagle. Molière Plays Paris. Oregon Shakespeare Festival: OSF Scripts, 1996. Including The Love Doctor and The Forced Marriage.
Lochhead, Liz. Educating Agnes (from Moliere's The School for Wives). Glasgow: Theatre Babel, 2008. 4 m, 2w. "Scots-inflected." Delightful.
Lochhead, Liz. Miseryguts & Tartuffe, two plays by Molière. London: Nick Hern Books, 2002. Miseryguts is a Scottish version in verse of The Misanthrope: 5m, 3w. Tartuffe is a verse translation of Molière's play: 5m,4w.
Lochhead, Liz. Thon Man Molière, or Whit Got Him Intae Aw That Bother. London: Nick Hern Books, 2017. 3m, 5w. Hilarious Scottish-dialect take on Molière's personal life and women.
Mooney, Timothy. Molière Than Thou, a gleefully giddy one-man classical comedy borrowed from the plays of Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière, drawn from new rhyming versions. ISBN 0983181225. 2013.
Mooney, Timothy. The Big Book of Molière Monologues: Hilarious Performance Pieces from Our Greatest Comic Playwright.
Savoisien, Gérard. Mademoiselle Molière. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018. 1m, 1w. In French. Molière and his leading actress (and former mistress) Madeleine Béjart prepare to perform for the king at Vaux le Vicomte. He breaks the news that he plans to marry her daughter Armande Béjart.
Jackson, Nagle, trans. & adapter. Moliere Plays Paris. 10m, 4w. unit set. Adult language. https://www.playscripts.com/play/1985
Careers and love lives alike are on the line when Moliere's theater company bombs their debut performance in Paris. Desperate to impress King Louis XIV, the company stages a spontaneous production of Moliere's farce The Love Doctor. The show is a smash hit, but when Moliere announces his betrothal to the younger sister of his former mistress, Madeleine Bejart, turmoil ensues. The next night, onstage high jinks merge with backstage drama when the troupe performs The Forced Marriage, and Moliere must deal with the demands of the King as he realizes that his fiancee may not be quite what she seems. Thomas, Freyda, translator & adapter. Tartuffe: Born Again. Samuel French. 6m, 5w.
Comedy / 6m, 5f / Int. This modern adaptation casts Tartuffe as a deposed televangelist who rooks Orgon and his family of their money and property and nearly compromises Orgon's wife. The action takes place in a religious television studio in Baton Rouge where the characters cavort to either prevent or aid Tartuffe in his machinations. Written in modern verse, Tartuffe: Born Again adheres closely to the structure and form of the original. Moliere's legendary comedic characters are delightfully at home in this modern day version that played at New York's Circle in the Square.
Molière in Love by Laura Annawyn Shamas. Full-length comedy-farce.
5 men, 2 women (expandable to 7 men, 5 women)
Set in 1670, Paris, Molière in Love is based on the true story of Molière's theatrical attempt to win back the love of his much younger wife, Armande. In order to "re-romance" his wife, the playwright decides to write a play-ballet to showcase her talents and beauty. But because of Louis XIV's extramarital pursuits, the king demands that the show, Psyché, must be completed and produced within mere weeks. Casting requirements: 300 actors and dancers. Frantic to complete the project, Molière must partner with one of his rivals, Pierre Corneille, in order to please the king and "versify" the play quickly. As Molière assembles his troupe of actors and dancers to rehearse, the internal politics of his own company adds further complications. One of Molière's own former lovers is cast as the beautiful Venus, much to Armande's dismay. And Armande hates the handsome leading man with whom she must perform. Or so it seems … until Molière stumbles upon them in a passionate, incriminating embrace, with the excuse that they are "just rehearsing." And then the king himself hints that he might demand a featured role in the extravaganza, as he is an accomplished ballet dancer who has not performed in two years—and there is someone new he'd like to impress. To top if all off, Molière's own young protégé/biographer is on hand to chronicle every minute of the action behind the scenes. Molière battles literary and romantic rivals, a meddlesome royal patron, an insane deadline and his own ego in order to create a work worthy of his task. But in the end, will it be enough to heal his marriage, keep the court appeased, and keep his company afloat?
The Love Knot by Michael McFaden. One-act comedy-farce. 3 men, 2 women.
For sheer entertainment and fun, this play is hard to beat, even by the merry farces of Molière, who obviously has influenced this American writer, a young Hollywood native who can't remember when he was not enthralled with the theatre. "Upon entering high school," McFaden says, "I was introduced to the works of Molière. I took such a liking to his plays and his style of writing that I became known as the 'Molière Freak' of the high school." The Love Knot, a 20th-century reincarnation of Molière's style, is the fruit of that fascination. The Love Knot is a farce in the Molière manner. For sheer delight, with characters that sparkle with that tinkling kind of gaiety that keeps the audience laughing, you can't find a better one-act play. A 17th-century analyst, bored with his success, decides to give the wrong advice to his next patient, a pompous aristocrat who can't imagine why his love, Aminta, doesn't adore him. The analyst recommends that he shower his attention on Lucille, a sleazy, boorish barmaid. Lucille is thrilled, but her lover, the equally boorish Picard, is not—until the analyst points Picard at the fashionable Aminta. The merry mix-up keeps the characters jousting and the audience laughing, while reminding us that it is better not to pretend to be something we are not. For junior-high, high-school, college and community drama. Excellent contest play.
Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754) is known as "the Molière of the north." Many of this 18th-century Danish director-author's comedies were based on or influenced by Molière's plays, which Holberg often staged in Copenhagen. In addition to the bibliography below, quite a few of Holberg's comedies can be found on-line (Project Gutenberg, etc.). Note that in the Seven One-Acts listed below, the last one-act comedy has a cast of 6 women!
In addition to the anthologies listed at left:
Jeppe of the Hill and Other Comedies by Ludvig Holberg, trans. Gerald S. Argetsinger & Sven H. Rossel (Southern Illinois University Press, 1990) includes 8 plays and a bibliography. The 3-act comedy Pernille's Brief Experience as a Lady (pp. 274-309) has major roles for 3 women & 4 men with additional small roles. The influence of Molière's The Miser and Tartuffe is clear. This is a fun piece, playably translated.
Selected Bibliography of Anthologies and Works Cited
Bentley, Eric, ed. The Misanthrope and Other French Classics. New York: applause Theatre Books, 1995.
Includes The Misanthrope, trans. Richard Wilbur, pp. 63-125. Phaedra, trans. Robert Lowell. The Cid,
trans. James Schevill. Figaro's Marriage, trans. Jacques Barzun.
Bermel, Albert, trans. The Actor's Molière, Volume 1: The Miser & George Dandin. New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1987. Bermel is a respected translator. This edition includes Lyrics for The Miser.
Bermel, Albert, trans. One-Act Comedies of Molière. New York: Applause Books, third edition 1992. Includes The Jealous Husband, The Flying Doctor, Two Precious Maidens Ridiculed, Sganarelle, or the Imaginary Cuckold, The Rehearsal at Versailles, The Forced Marriage, The Seductive Countess.
Bishop, Morris, trans. Eight Plays by Molière. New York: The Modern Library, 1957. Includes, The Precious Damsels, The School for Wives, The Critique of the School for Wives, The Versailles Impromptu, Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, The Physician in Spite of Himself, The Would-Be Gentleman.
Bradby, David and Andrew Calder, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Molière. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Chapter 8: “Comédies-ballets” by Charles Mazouer, 107-119.
Fowlie, Wallace, ed. and trans. Five Classic French Plays. Mineola NY: Dover, 1997. The Intellectual Ladies by Molière, pp. 125-168. Other plays by Corneille, Racine, Marivaux, Beaumarchais.
Frame, Donald, trans. The Misanthrope and Other Plays, with a new Afterward by Lewis C. Seifert. New York: Signet Classics (Penguin Group), 2005. Includes The Misanthrope, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, The Miser, The Would-Be Gentleman, The Mischievous Machinations of Scapin, The Learned Women, The Imaginary Invalid.
Gregory, Lady, trans. The Kiltartan Molière. Dublin: 1910. The Miser, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, The Rogueries of Scapin.
Mazouer, Charles. “Comédies-ballets,” Chapter 8 in Bradby and Calder, 107-119.
The Modern Library. Plays by Molière. Introduction by Waldo Frank. New York: Random House, n.d. No translators listed = copyright free? The High-brow Ladies (Les Précieuses ridicules). The School for Wives. Tartuffe. The Misanthrope. The Physician in Spite of Himself. The Miser.
Pergolizzi, Carlo Milo, translator. Molière: Four Plays. The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, The Affected Damsels, The Miser (2 versions). Boston: Branden Books, International Pocket Library, 1999.
Smith, Gretchen Elizabeth. The Performance of Male Nobility in Molière’s Comédies-Ballets: Staging the Courtier. Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2005.
Wood, James and David Coward, translators. Molière: the Misanthrope and Other Plays. New York: Penguin
Books, 2000. Includes Such Foolish Affected Ladies, Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, The Doctor Despite
Himself, The Would-Be Gentleman, Those Learned Ladies.
In addition to the anthologies listed at left:
Jeppe of the Hill and Other Comedies by Ludvig Holberg, trans. Gerald S. Argetsinger & Sven H. Rossel (Southern Illinois University Press, 1990) includes 8 plays and a bibliography. The 3-act comedy Pernille's Brief Experience as a Lady (pp. 274-309) has major roles for 3 women & 4 men with additional small roles. The influence of Molière's The Miser and Tartuffe is clear. This is a fun piece, playably translated.
Selected Bibliography of Anthologies and Works Cited
Bentley, Eric, ed. The Misanthrope and Other French Classics. New York: applause Theatre Books, 1995.
Includes The Misanthrope, trans. Richard Wilbur, pp. 63-125. Phaedra, trans. Robert Lowell. The Cid,
trans. James Schevill. Figaro's Marriage, trans. Jacques Barzun.
Bermel, Albert, trans. The Actor's Molière, Volume 1: The Miser & George Dandin. New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1987. Bermel is a respected translator. This edition includes Lyrics for The Miser.
Bermel, Albert, trans. One-Act Comedies of Molière. New York: Applause Books, third edition 1992. Includes The Jealous Husband, The Flying Doctor, Two Precious Maidens Ridiculed, Sganarelle, or the Imaginary Cuckold, The Rehearsal at Versailles, The Forced Marriage, The Seductive Countess.
Bishop, Morris, trans. Eight Plays by Molière. New York: The Modern Library, 1957. Includes, The Precious Damsels, The School for Wives, The Critique of the School for Wives, The Versailles Impromptu, Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, The Physician in Spite of Himself, The Would-Be Gentleman.
Bradby, David and Andrew Calder, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Molière. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Chapter 8: “Comédies-ballets” by Charles Mazouer, 107-119.
Fowlie, Wallace, ed. and trans. Five Classic French Plays. Mineola NY: Dover, 1997. The Intellectual Ladies by Molière, pp. 125-168. Other plays by Corneille, Racine, Marivaux, Beaumarchais.
Frame, Donald, trans. The Misanthrope and Other Plays, with a new Afterward by Lewis C. Seifert. New York: Signet Classics (Penguin Group), 2005. Includes The Misanthrope, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, The Miser, The Would-Be Gentleman, The Mischievous Machinations of Scapin, The Learned Women, The Imaginary Invalid.
Gregory, Lady, trans. The Kiltartan Molière. Dublin: 1910. The Miser, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, The Rogueries of Scapin.
Mazouer, Charles. “Comédies-ballets,” Chapter 8 in Bradby and Calder, 107-119.
The Modern Library. Plays by Molière. Introduction by Waldo Frank. New York: Random House, n.d. No translators listed = copyright free? The High-brow Ladies (Les Précieuses ridicules). The School for Wives. Tartuffe. The Misanthrope. The Physician in Spite of Himself. The Miser.
Pergolizzi, Carlo Milo, translator. Molière: Four Plays. The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, The Affected Damsels, The Miser (2 versions). Boston: Branden Books, International Pocket Library, 1999.
Smith, Gretchen Elizabeth. The Performance of Male Nobility in Molière’s Comédies-Ballets: Staging the Courtier. Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2005.
Wood, James and David Coward, translators. Molière: the Misanthrope and Other Plays. New York: Penguin
Books, 2000. Includes Such Foolish Affected Ladies, Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, The Doctor Despite
Himself, The Would-Be Gentleman, Those Learned Ladies.