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| The Miser and Other Plays | 
 enlarge | Author: Moliere
Creators: David Coward, John Wood
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 217162
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0140447288
Dewey Decimal Number: 842.4
EAN: 9780140447286
ASIN: 0140447288
Publication Date: January 27, 2000
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Condition: 1980 edition, good condition. Same day dispatch from UK
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A Good Laugh September 23, 2007
The introduction to this book helps put the plays in their correct context with the times they were written and the traditions of the French theatre. Moliere was an actor-manager/ playwright who wrote farces and satires that still please audiences today. His characters are three dimensional and believable, and he shows great insight into psychology and observational comedy. The great thing about reading these plays is the scarcity of stage directions making it is to read without loads of distractions. The plays are full of scintillating dialogue and the characters play off each other. In this book you have farces on marriage, satires on the medical profession and making money, along with his great satire 'The School for Wives Criticized' where he mocks intellectual pretensions and verbiosity. This book is an enjoyable read that shows the range of Moliere, and that he knew what the paying public want.
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