History Creator / Moliere

* ''Theatre/TheMisanthrope, or The Splenetic in Love'' (''Le Misanthrope, ou L'Atrabilaire amoureux'')

* ''The Hypochodriac'' (''Le Malade imaginaire'')

* ''Theatre/DonJuan, or The Stone Guest'' (''Dom Juan, ou Le Festin de pierre'')

* CelebrityParadox: Might be the TropeMaker. In ''The Imaginary Invalid'', which satirizes the medicine of the era, the brother of Argan (the hypochondriac main character) asks him if he would like to see a Moliére play. Argan angrily berates Moliére for making fun of doctors.

* ParentalMarriageVeto: In ''Le Bourgeois gentilhomme'', M. Jourdain, a recently ennobled bourgeois who has become uppity due to his rise in rank, refuses to let an otherwise perfectly eligible young man, who is not a nobleman himself, marry his daughter. Circumventing that veto for the young couple becomes the main plot of the rest of the play.

* TakingTheVeil: In ''Les Précieuses ridicules'', Gorgibus threatens Magdelon and Cathos that if they are not married soon, "you will be nuns", I.E. he will dispose of his daughter and niece in a convent.

* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: Magdelon and Cathos, the two cousins in ''Les Précieuses ridicules'' imagine that the way their relationship before marriage to a future husband should play out according to a formula lifted from romance novels. This is diametrally opposite to their father/uncle's resolve that they accept what amounts to an ArrangedMarriage as the right and proper thing to do.

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Legend has it he died on the stage, in 1673, playing the main role in ''The Imaginary Invalid''.[[note]]In fact, he collapsed on stage due to a coughing fit, while playing a hypochondriac. Moliere had long suffered from tuberculosis, but insisted on finishing the performance, then was taken home and died there a few hours later.[[/note]]

Legend has it he died on the stage, in 1673, playing the main role in ''The Imaginary Invalid''.[[note]]In fact, he collapsed on stage, was taken home and died there a few hours later.[[/note]]

Moli&egrave (born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 15 January 1622 – 17 February 1673) was one of the many children of the French royal tapestry-maker. He tried to follow his father's footsteps and later, to become a lawyer, but his heart wasn't in it, and he ended up as one of the greatest French playwrights, and a protégé of King Louis XIV. He's so big in French culture that the language itself is nicknamed ''"La langue de Molière"''. In many ways, he's a rough French equivalent to [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]], though his stature isn't quite as towering (since unlike Shakespeare, Molière wrote more or less only comedies, while the Bard wrote tragedies, histories, "problem plays" and standalone poems).

Molière was born in 1622 as Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, one of the many children of the French royal tapestry-maker. He tried to follow his father's footsteps and later, to become a lawyer, but his heart wasn't in it, and he ended up as one of the greatest French playwrights, and a protégé of King Louis XIV. He's so big in French culture that the language itself is nicknamed ''"La langue de Molière"''. In many ways, he's a rough French equivalent to [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]], though his stature isn't quite as towering (since unlike Shakespeare, Molière wrote more or less only comedies, while the Bard wrote tragedies, histories, "problem plays" and standalone poems).

!!Works by Molière with their own trope pages:

* ''Theatre/TheDoctorInSpiteOfHimself''
* ''Theatre/TheMisanthrope''
* ''Theatre/TheMiser''
* ''Theatre/{{Tartuffe}}''
* ''Theatre/TheLearnedLadies''

Molière was born in 1622 as Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, one of the many children of the French royal tapestry-maker. He tried to follow his father's footsteps and later, to become a lawyer, but his heart wasn't in it, and he ended up as one of the greatest French playwrights, and a protégé of King Louis XIV. He's so big in French culture that the language itself is nicknamed ''"La langue de Molière"''. In many ways, he's a rough French equivalent to [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]], though his stature isn't quite as towering (since unlike Shakespeare, Molière wrote more or less only comedies, without the Bard's tragedies, histories, "problem plays", or standalone poems).

Molière was born in 1622 as Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, one of the many children of the French royal tapestry-maker. He tried to follow his father's footsteps and later, to become a lawyer, but his heart wasn't in it, and he ended up as one of the greatest French playwrights, and a protégé of King Louis XIV. He's so big in French culture that the language itself is nicknamed ''"La langue de Molière"''.

* ''The Blunderer, or The Dust-Up'' (''L'Étourdi, ou Le Contretemps'')

* ''The Mad'' (''Les Fâcheux'')

* ''Theatre/TheMisanthrope, or The Malcontent in Love'' (''Le Misanthrope, ou L'Atrabilaire amoureux'')

* ''The Pranks of Scapin'' (''Les Fourberies de Scapin'')

* ''Don Juan, or The Stone Guest'' (''Dom Juan, ou Le Festin de pierre'')

'''Molière''' was born in 1622 as Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, one of the many children of the French royal tapestry-maker. He tried to follow his father's footsteps and later, to become a lawyer, but his heart wasn't in it, and he ended up as one of the greatest French playwrights, and a protégé of King Louis XIV. He's so big in French culture that the language itself is nicknamed ''"La langue de Molière"''.

'''Molière''' was born in 1622 as Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, one of the many children of the French royal tapestry-maker. He tried to follow his father's footsteps and later, to become a lawyer, but his heart wasn't in it, and he ended up as one of the greatest French playwrights, and a protégé of King Louis XIV.

* MayDecemberRomance / WifeHusbandry: Subverted, in that it's usually young girls who want nothing to do with the old men who are being forced on them.

* ''TheLearnedLadies'' (''Les Femmes savantes'')

* ''TheLearnedLadies''

* AuthorTract: Moliere really, ''really'' hated doctors and the clergy, and had very snarky comments on bourgeois. He let ''everyone'' know about it. Why'd you think that ''Theatre/{{Tartuffe}}'' was banned for several years?

* FrenchMaid: The ''soubrette'' found in several of his plays; Dorine in ''{{Theatre/Tartuffe}}'' is perhaps the clearest example.

* MayDecemberRomance - WifeHusbandry: Subverted, in that it's usually young girls who want nothing to do with the old men who are being forced on them.

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* ''{{Theatre/Tartuffe}}, or The Hypocrite'' (''Tartuffe, ou L'Imposteur'')

* ''{{Theatre/Tartuffe}}''

* AuthorTract: Moliere really, ''really'' hated doctors and the clergy, and had very snarky comments on bourgeois. He let ''everyone'' know about it. Why'd you think that ''{{Theatre/Tartuffe}}'' was banned for several years?
* CatchPhrase: One of Molière's favourite source of comedy involves a character repeating the same line over and over again in one scene. In some cases they became proverbial (''e.g.'', "What the devil was he doing on that galley?" (« ''Que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère?'' ») from ''Les Fourberies de Scapin'', and "Poor man!" (« ''Le pauvre homme!'' ») from ''{{Theatre/Tartuffe}}'')

* StrawHypocrite: {{Theatre/Tartuffe}}

Legend has it he died on the stage, in 1673, playing the main role in ''The Imaginary Invalid''.[[hottip:*: In fact, he collapsed on stage, was taken home and died there a few hours later.]]

* ''The Learned Ladies'' (''Les Femmes savantes'')

* AuthorTract: Moliere really, ''really'' hated doctors and the clergy, and had very snarky comments on bourgeois. He let ''everyone'' know about it. Why d you think that ''{{Theatre/Tartuffe}}'' was banned for several years?

Heavily influenced by ''CommediaDellArte'', his plays are full of slapstick, misunderstandings, and thwarted lovers.

* AuthorTract

* MayDecemberRomance: Subverted, in that it's usually young girls who want nothing to do with the old men who are being forced on them.