The Misanthrope: Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)
By Molière
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The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding.
Alceste, the misanthrope, hates all mankind, and despairs of its hypocrisy and falseness. He believes that the world could be perfected if people were more honest with each other. But when his honesty starts to make him enemies, and the target of malicious gossips, it is his world and his life which suffer. He alienates his love, elimene, and reproaches her coquettish, flirty ways; he is summoned before the court of marshals to defend a candid opinion about Oronte's terrible poetry - a case which he knows he will lose despite the justness of the cause. He begins to realise that the only way to be left out of gossip is to get out of society - but will elimene go with him, or is she just like everybody else?
Translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine
Molière
Molière was a French playwright, actor, and poet. Widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature, his extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more.
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Reviews for The Misanthrope
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a very funny play in the Folio 2 euros series, much cheaper than Argan's pills and potions - involving a hypochondriac, mistaken identities, clever servants and satire on the medical profession - Thomas Diafoirus, described by W.G.Moore, as the embodiment of crass stupidity.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Argan is the epitome of the fool - he is so concerned with himself and is pleased to be the center of attention by way of his poor health. There is the requisite romantic couple who look to be thwarted because of this man's foolishness. But with the help of the impudent maid, everything is put to rights, though nothing can make Argan a rational creature!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is the story of Argan, a hypochrondriac that wants to marry his daughter to a doctor in order to have one in the family. It is a typical comedy, with people is disguise, and various alliances among characters, and misunderstandings that lead to absurdity.This play is also an attack on the medical profession, with their self-interest in keeping patients sick in order to sell cures and bill for their services.Entertaining, quick read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sehr nett. Entwickelt sich in eine seltsame Richtung, nimmt Bezug auf Moliere, der Argan spielte. Größe Verwirrung.