Molière
Les Précieuses ridicules
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Madelon et Cathos, deux jeunes provinciales, arrivent à Paris en quête d'amour et de jeux d'esprit. Gorgibus, père de Ma…
L’Avare
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L’intrigue se passe à Paris. Le riche et avare Harpagon a deux enfants : Élise qui est amoureuse de Valère, un gentilho…
Le Malade imaginaire
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Le Malade imaginaire est la dernière comédie écrite par Molière.À la quatrième représentati…
Tartuffe
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Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greates…
L’École des Femmes
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L’École des femmes est une comédie de Molière en cinq actes et en vers, créée au théâtre du …
Dom Juan
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Dom Juan, ou Le Festin de pierre est une comédie de Molière en cinq actes et en prose dont la « Troupe de Monsieur fr&eg…
Les Femmes savantes
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Les Femmes savantes est une pièce de théâtre en cinq actes et en alexandrins de Molière, comédie de mœurs …
Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur
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Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur est une comédie en cinq actes de Molière représentée pour la première fois au…
Les Fourberies de Scapin
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Cette pièce en trois actes et en prose créée en 1671 au théâtre du Palais-Royal en 1671 n’obtint pas imm…
Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre
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Les libertins ne font jamais bonne fin. Dom Juan défie le Ciel et la société, accompagné par son faire-valoir de…
La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas
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La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas est une comédie-ballet de Molière (musique de Charpentier et ballets de Beauchamp), commandée…
Le Misanthrope, ou L’Atrabiliaire amoureux
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Le Misanthrope, ou L’Atrabilaire amoureux est une comédie de Molière en cinq actes et en vers jouée pour la premi&egrav…
The Miser
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The Miser is a comedy of manners about a rich moneylender named Harpagon. His feisty children long to escape from his penny-pinching househo…
The Imaginary Invalid
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The Imaginary Invalid (French: Le Malade imaginaire) is a three-act comédie-ballet by the French playwright Molière. It was fi…
The Misanthrope
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Alceste, the misanthrope, hates everyone including himself. But unlike in many pure farces with their cliche stock characters, the character…
The Learned Women
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Two young people, Henriette and Clitandre, are in love, but in order to marry, they must overcome an obstacle: the attitude of Henriette's f…
Les Fourberies de Scapin (Version 2)
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Les Fourberies de Scapin est une comédie de Molière en trois actes et en prose, créée au théâtre du…
Short Story Collection Vol. 038
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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 038: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme – Acte I, Scène 4
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« Monsieur Jourdain — Je voudrais donc lui mettre dans un billet : Belle Marquise, vos beaux yeux me font mourir d’amour ; mais …
Le Médecin volant
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Le Médecin Volant est une comédie burlesque écrite par Molière, probablement au début de sa carriè…
Les Précieuses ridicules, la pièce !
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Burlesque et mordant, Molière, dans sa pièce, tend un piège à « deux pecques de province » qui se pr…
The School for Husbands
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In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands (this one) and then The School for Wives. "The central situations …
George Dandin, ou Le mari confondu
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George Dandin soupçonne sa femme de le tromper avec un galant. Mais il a beau s'enrager et essayer de convaincre ses beaux-parents de…
One-Act Play Collection 003
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This collection of ten one-act dramas features plays by Edward Goodman, Alice Gerstenberg, Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy, Anton Chekhov, F…
The Bourgeois Gentleman
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The Bourgeois Gentleman of the title is a middle-class social climber, assured that by learning all the arts of a true and noble gentleman, …
The School for Wives
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In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands and then The School for Wives (this one). "The central situations …
Love is the Best Doctor
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Four most fashionable doctors are called in by Sganarelle to cure his daughter, but instead they argue about everything and Sganarelle is dr…
Le Misanthrope (Acte IV, Scène 3)
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Colère d’un homme sincère, perfidie d’une femme coquette.Alceste, atrabilaire, qui en veut à toute l’humanité a…
Cinq Poèmes
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Petite curiosité littéraire : deux sonnets (Au Roi sur la conquête de la Franche-Comté et À Monsieur Le Va…
Le Médecin malgré lui
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Le Médecin malgré lui est une pièce de théâtre de Molière en trois actes de respectivement 5, 5 et …
L’École des femmes – Acte II, Scène 5
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Molière, ah… Molière ! Quel témoin fabuleux de son temps, du temps de Louis XIV ! Et que de témoignages de sa vi…
The Physician In Spite of Himself
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The Physician In Spite of Himself … is written in a most unbounded spirit of mirth, the matrimonial breezes wafting a certain amount of refr…
Tartuffe – Acte III, Scène 3
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« TARTUFFE. — Que le Ciel à jamais par sa toute bonté, Et de l’âme et du corps vous donne la santé, Et b&ea…
The Love-Tiff
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"The characters are well delineated, and fathers, lovers, mistresses, and servants all move about amidst a complication of errors from …
Psyche
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This is a very different Moliere, not the usual satire of everyday life. It is instead a classical tale based on the ancient story of Psyche…
The Impromptu of Versailles
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The setup here is that Moliere and his troupe have been sent for by the King to come perform at Versailles. But instead of the piece they ha…
The Magnificent Lovers
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"The King [Louis XIV], who will have nothing but what is magnificent in all he undertakes, wished to give his court an entertainment wh…
Monologue d’Harpagon
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Extrait de L’Avare de Molière, Acte 4, Scène 7.« Au voleur ! au voleur ! à l’assassin ! au meurtrier ! Justice, j…
One-Act Play Collection 011
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Here are 10 one act plays offered by various groups of Librivox readers. From Ancient India to the Far Future, from the palaces of royalty t…
The Impostures of Scapin
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Scapin is a liar, a schemer, an arrogant meddler who thinks he can make people do anything. And yet sometimes he acts in the cause of good. …
Profession de foi de Dom Juan
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Extrait de Dom Juan, Acte 1, Scène 2.« Quoi ? tu veux qu’on se lie à demeurer au premier objet qui nous prend, qu’on ren…
The Blunderer, or The Counterplots
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A very early Moliere. From the Translator: "In this piece the plot is carried on ... by a servant, Mascarille, who is the first origina…
Stances galantes (Poème)
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Un poème de Molière (1622-1673), extrait des Œuvres complètes.« Souffrez qu’Amour cette nuit vous réveille…
The Bores
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Moliere: "Never was any Dramatic performance so hurried as this; and it is a thing, I believe, quite new, to have a comedy planned, fin…
Monologue de Sosie
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Extrait d’Amphitryon, Acte 1, Scène 1.« Qui va là ? Heu ? Ma peur, à chaque pas, s’accroît. Messieurs, ami …
Monsieur De Pourceaugnac
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'Monsieur de Pourceaugnac', acted on October 6, 1669, is nothing but a farce. But Molière excels in farce as well as in higher comedy…
Amphitryon
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"The history of Amphitryon and Alcmene, or rather the myth of the birth of Hercules, is certainly very old, and is to be found in the l…
One-Act Play Collection 012
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Here are 10 One Act Plays for your enjoyment. They range from a 1659 farce by Moliere to a 1896 play by Fuller with early LGBT content; a Gi…
Princess of Elis
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In the month of May 1664, Louis XIV entertained the Queen-mother, Anne of Austria, and his own wife , Maria Theresa, with a brilliant and su…
George Dandin: or The Abashed Husband
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"The treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle having been ratified ... and peace being assured ... Louis XIV resolved to give a festival in his favori…
Don Juan, or The Feast with the Statue
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Don Juan "contains, perhaps, more severe attacks upon hypocrisy than does even Tartuffe. It depicts the hero as a man who, rich, noble,…
Don Garcia of Navarre, or the Jealous Prince
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Nothing can be more unlike The Pretentious Young Ladies or Sganarelle than Molière's Don Garcia of Navarre. The Théâtre …
Tartuffe
An adaptation of Molière's classic play broadcast on the NBC radio series GREAT PLAYS on December 19, 1939.
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
An adaptation by Harry McFadden broadcast on the NBC radio series GREAT PLAYS on December 18, 1938.
The School for Husbands
An adaptation by Lawrence Langner broadcast on the NBC radio series GREAT PLAYS on April 2, 1938.
The Imaginary Invalid
An adaptation by Richard MacDonald broadcast on the NBC radio series GREAT PLAYS on December 15, 1940.
The Doctor In Spite Of Himself
Two old-time radio adaptations of Moliere's classic comedy Le Medicin malgre lui : 1) adapted by Ernest Kinoy and broadcast on the NBC UNIVE…