History Creator / Moliere

* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: Magdelon and Cathos, the two cousins in ''Les Précieuses ridicules'' imagine that their courtship with their future husbands 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.

* ''Theatre/The Affected Young Ladies'' (''Les Précieuses ridicules'')

* ''The Affected Young Ladies'' (''Les Précieuses ridicules'')

* 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}}'').

* OrphansPlotTrinket: In ''Les Fourberies de Scapin'', Zerbine's bracelet.

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

One of the many children of a 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 writing stage plays. He became renowned enough to become a protégé of King UsefulNotes/LouisXIV. Heavily influenced by ''CommediaDellArte'', his plays are full of slapstick, snark, misunderstandings, and thwarted lovers.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, [[StageNames better known as]] "Molière" (15 January 1622 – 17 February 1673), was a French playwright.

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 comedies, tragedies, histories, romances, "problem plays" and standalone poems.

One of the many children of a 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 writing stage plays. He became renowned enough to become a protégé of King UsefulNotes/LouisXIV. 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 comedies, tragedies, histories, romances, "problem plays" and standalone poems.

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

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, [[StageNames better known as]] "Molière" (15 January 1622 – 17 February 1673), was one of the many children of a 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 UsefulNotes/LouisXIV. 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 comedies, tragedies, histories, romances, "problem plays" and standalone poems.

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

* 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}}'')
* CelebrityParadox: In ''Theatre/TheImaginaryInvalid'', which satirizes the medicine of the era, the brother of Argan (the hypochondriac main character) asks him if he would like to see a Molière play. Argan angrily berates Molière for making fun of doctors.

* TheDandy: Mascarille and Jodelet in ''Les Précieuses ridicules'' are played for laughs as two period fops. [[spoiler: They are actually the rejected suitors' valets, sent by their masters to fool the young ladies who rejected the latter into thinking they are suitors more to their taste.]]

* LongLostSibling

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: In ''Le Bourgeois gentilhomme'', M. Jourdain is tricked into believing that the son of the Great Turk ([[spoiler:actually his daughter's boyfriend, whom M. Jourdain considers beneath them]]) wants to marry his daughter and is made to undergo a ceremony under the pretext of ennobling him Turkish-style. The Mufti and his assistants perform most of the ceremony, not in actual Turkish, but in "Sabir" or "Lingua Franca", a largely romance pidgin that was once used to facilitate communication in the Mediterranean Basin. Justified as the ceremony is a sham meant to trick M. Jourdain and may have involved locals speaking the foreign language they knew rather than actual Turks.

* ParentalMarriageVeto: In ''Le Bourgeois gentilhomme'', M. Jourdain, a wealthy bourgeois who has become uppity due to his aspirations to join the ranks of the nobility, 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.

* ''The Bourgeois Gentleman'' (''Le Bourgeois gentilhomme'')

* AerithAndBob: There is a mix of real and fictional names in Molière's plays. Fictional names include: Argan, Cléante, Harpagon, Cléonte, Dorimène, Orgon...

Molière (born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 15 January 1622 – 17 February 1673) was one of the many children of a French royal tapestry-maker.

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

* CelebrityParadox: In ''Theatre/TheImaginaryInvalid'', 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.

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 the hypochondriac of the title. Moliere had long suffered from tuberculosis, but insisted on finishing the performance, then was taken home and died there a few hours later.[[/note]]

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

* CelebrityParadox: 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.

* GoldDigger: Beline, Argan's second wife in ''The Hypochondriac'' (also translated as ''The Imaginary Invalid''), is a two-faced woman: she flatters and pampers her husband, but schemes all the time, trying to figure out how to get all his money after his death, and she wants to deprive his two daughters of their share.

* ''Molière'', 2007 French film. Played by Romain Duris.

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 UsefulNotes/LouisXIV. 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 comedies, tragedies, histories, romances, "problem plays" and standalone poems).

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 UsefulNotes/LouisXIV. 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 (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 UsefulNotes/LouisXIV. 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).

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: In ''Le Bourgeois gentilhomme'', M. Jourdain is tricked into believing that the son of the Great Turk ([[spoiler: actually his daughter's boyfriend, whom M. Jourdain considers beneath them]]) wants to marry his daughter and is made to undergo a ceremony under the pretext of ennobling him Turkish-style. The Mufti and his assistants perform most of the ceremony, not in actual Turkish, but in "Sabir" or "Lingua Franca", a largely romance pidgin that was once used to facilitate communication in the Mediterranean Basin. Justified as the ceremony is a sham meant to trick M. Jourdain and may have involved locals speaking the foreign language they knew rather than actual Turks.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Molierissimo}}, 1989 French animated series. Voiced by Creator/ClaudeGiraud in French.

Molière (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).