Books by Jean-Baptiste Moliere

Misantropen er en fantastisk komedie af Jean-Baptiste Moliére, hvor samfundet bliver beskrevet via flere mænds kærlighed til Célimène. Datidens storladne sprog og de falske gode meninger får det glatte lag af hovedpersonen Alceste, der begærer hele denne uærlige snak krig. Derfor er han selv yderst direkte og hudløs ærlig i sine kommentarer, men samtidig formår han ikke se opdage sine egne fejl. Og hvad med hans elskede, kan og vil hun leve op til hans ekstremt høje krav til sandhed og ærlighed?Misantropen er et klassisk skuespil oversat af Hans Peter Andersen. Oprindeligt er det på vers, men i denne nye oversættelse er versene fjernet, uden dog at forandre yderligere i teksten.God læselyst.

In the seventeenth century, Moli re raised comedy to the pitch of great art and, three centuries later, his plays are still a source of delight. He created a new synthesis from the major comic traditions at his disposal. This collection demonstrates the range of Moli re's comic vision, his ability to move between the broad and basic ploys of farce to the more subtle and sophisticated level of high comedy. The Misanthrope appears along with Such Preposterously Precious Ladies, Tartuffe, A Doctor Despite Himself, The Would-Be Gentleman, and Those Learned Ladies.

Moli re combined all the traditional elements of comedy - wit, slapstick, spectacle and satire - to create richly sophisticated and enduringly popular dramas. The Miser is the story of Harpagon, a mean-spirited old man who becomes obsessed with making money out of the marriage of his children, while The Hypochondriac, another study in obsession, is a brilliant satire on the medical profession. The School for Wives, in which an ageing domestic tyrant is foiled in his plans to marry his young ward, provoked such an outcry that Moli re followed it with The School for Wives Criticized - a witty retort to those who disapproved of the play's supposed immorality. And while Don Juan is the darkest and most tragic of all the plays in this collection, it still mocks the soullessness of the skinflint with scathing irony.