* Molière's comedy, L ' Avare, is first performed.

From Molière's line " Le véritable Amphitryon est l ' Amphitryon où l ' on dîne ," the name Amphitryon has come to be used in the sense of a generous entertainer, a good host ; the French word for " host " is in fact " amphitryon ;" its Spanish cognate is " anfitrión " and its Portuguese " anfitrião ".

John Dryden's 1690 Amphitryon is based on Molière's 1668 version as well as on Plautus.

The married life of Pinchwife and Margery is based on Molière's School For Wives.

It is based on several plays by Molière, with added features that 1670s London audiences demanded: colloquial prose dialogue in place of Molière's verse, a complicated, fast-paced plot tangle, and many sex jokes.

The married life of Pinchwife and Margery is based on Molière's School For Husbands ( 1661 ) and School For Wives ( 1662 ).

The difference, which would later make Molière acceptable and Wycherley atrocious to 19th-century critics and theatre producers, is that Molière's Agnes is naturally pure and virtuous, while Margery is just the opposite: enthusiastic about the virile handsomeness of town gallants, rakes, and especially theatre actors, she keeps Pinchwife in a state of continual horror with her plain-spokenness and her interest in sex.

The play is based on Molière's Le Misanthrope, and is generally considered Wycherley's finest work along with The Country Wife.

His most popular play was: Philinte, ou La suite du Misanthrope ( 1790 ), supposed to be a continuation of Molière's Le Misanthrope, but the hero of the piece is a different character from the nominal prototype — a pure and simple egotist.

A decade of provincial apprenticeship followed in southern England and in Dublin ( where he married ); his first roles included Adam Contest in Elizabeth Inchbald's The Wedding Day and Lovegold in Henry Fielding's translation of Molière's The Miser ; however, his name is associated with a wide variety of roles.

* Molière's play, Tartuffe, is banned.

In his play Dom Juan, Molière's title character is asked what he believes.

It is a characteristic of Molière's heroes that they are never ‘ converted ’: in every case the dénouement, far from curing them of their folly, merely confirms them in it.

His " faculty " to explain the possibility of synthetic a priori judgements is likened to the explanation of the narcotic quality of opium in terms of a " sleepy faculty " in Molière's comedy Le Malade imaginaire.

Clair's first film on his return to France was the romantic comedy Le silence est d ' or ( Silence is Golden ) ( 1947 ), which was set in 1906 and nostalgically evoked the world of early French film-making ; its plot also created variations on Molière's L ' École des femmes.

In Molière's play, Tartuffe, the title character is shown to be a religious hypocrite when he wears a hair shirt with the hair lining facing outward, so that it can be seen, rather than felt.

If a philanthropist is literally someone who likes people, McCowen's Philip was a philologist with a compulsive urge not to hurt people's feelings — the inverse of Molière's The Misanthrope.

* The Rustic Pantomime: Gesturing towards Pierrot's roots outside the Commedia dell ' Arte, to the peasant Pierrot of bucolic tradition ( such as Molière's Pierrot of Don Juan ), the action of these scenarios is set in a hamlet or village.

Although the 17th-century French upper classes presumably objected to the play's message, it is less savage and somewhat less realistic than Molière's earlier play, Tartuffe, which attracted a storm of criticism on its first performance.

Damis is also a common name in Arcadian pastorals, and that of Orgon's son in Molière's Tartuffe.

In 1936, he went to Paris and on 9 May appeared at the Comédie-Française as Sganarelle in the second act of Molière's Le Médecin malgré lui, the first English actor to appear at that theatre, where he acted the part in French and received an ovation.

In August 1661, Louis XIV, already set upon Fouquet's destruction ( his disgrace was secretly decided upon on May 4 ), was entertained at Vaux with a fête rivaled in magnificence by only one or two in French history, at which Molière's Les Fâcheux was produced for the first time.

* Text of Molière's Dom Juan ' ( in French )

In 1677 Betterton produced two adaptations from the French by Otway, Titus and Berenice ( from Racine's Bérénice ), and the Cheats of Scapin ( from Molière's Fourberies de Scapin ).

In 1985, under the pseudonym " Rabaith ", Fulton, along with Denise Coffey, adapted the French playwright Molière's, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme as A Wee Touch o ' Class.

A recent French seminar analyzed French literature and film, including Begag's Le Gone du Chaâba and Molière's L ' école des femmes.

As a result of Molière's play, contemporary French and English both use the word " tartuffe " to designate a hypocrite who ostensibly and exaggeratedly feigns virtue, especially religious virtue.

Because both Tartuffe and Dom Juan, two of Molière's previous plays, had already been banned by the French government, Molière may have subdued his actual ideas to make his play more socially acceptable.

The French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, claimed ( in his Letter to M. D ' Alembert on Spectacles ) that it was Molière's best work but hated the fact that Alceste was depicted as a fool on stage.

Molière's Les précieuses ridicules was certainly based on an earlier play by Samuel Chappuzeau ( best known for his work Le Theatre Francois ( 1674 ), which contains the most detailed description of French theatre during this period ).

The term has not been in common use since the 17th century, but it can be found in works of classic French literature, such as Molière's L ' avare.

In 1673, probably inspired by Molière's success, the Comédie-Italienne gave a performance of its addendum to the Don Juan legend, Sequel to " The Stone Guest ", which included Molière's Pierrot.

He also translated and adapted several of Molière's plays ( The Misanthrope, which he titled " The Slave of Truth ", Tartuffe, and The Imaginary Invalid )

In February 1973 he co-starred with Diana Rigg in Molière's The Misanthrope for which he won his second Evening Standard award ; followed in July 1973 by the role of psychiatrist Martin Dysart (" played on a knife edge of professional skill and personal disgust by McCowen ", according to Irving Wardle reviewing for The Times ) in the world premiere of Peter Shaffer's Equus.

Besides these compositions, Tsegaye translated Shakespeare ( Hamlet and Othello being the most popular of these works ), as well as Molière's " Tartouffe " and " Doctor Despite Himself ", as well as Bertolt Brecht's " Mother Courage ".

The opera was originally conceived as a thirty-minute divertissement to be performed at the end of Hofmannsthal's adaptation of Molière's play Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.

* December 26 – Molière's play The School for Wives premieres.

" In Molière's play Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Monsieur Jourdain asked for something to be written in neither verse nor prose.

Adjani first gained fame as a classical actress for her interpretation of Agnès, the main female role in Molière's L ' École des femmes, but soon left the Comédie française she had joined in 1972, to pursue a film career.

The château was lavish, refined, and dazzling to behold, but these characteristics proved tragic for its owner: the king had Fouquet arrested shortly after a famous fête that took place on 17 August 1661 where Molière's play ' Les Fâcheux ' debuted.

Their work at miniature scale has translated into large-scale decors for the theatre and opera productions of director Richard Jones: Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges ; Feydeau's " A Flea in Her Ear "; Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa ; and Molière's " Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme ".

Wycherley's The Plain Dealer ( 1676 ), a variation on the theme of Molière's Le Misanthrope, was highly regarded for its uncompromising satire and earned Wycherley the appellation " Plain Dealer " Wycherley or " Manly " Wycherley, after the play's main character Manly.

At Clermont, Conti had been a fellow student of Molière's for whom he secured an introduction to the court of Louis XIV, but afterwards, when writing a treatise against the stage entitled Traité de la comédie et des spectacles selon les traditions de l ' Église ( Paris, 1667 ), he charged the dramatist with keeping a school of atheism.

Bouman composed the music ( which he directed from the harpsichord ) for a production of Molière's Le Malade Imaginaire in Auroville, India in 2006.

Järegård was since 1962 an actor in Sweden's prominent Royal Dramatic Theatre, where he came to perform a number of much celebrated parts: his eccentric Hitler in Schweik in the Second World War by Bertolt Brecht ( 1963 ), Estragon in the legendary 1966 Dramaten-staging of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Thersites in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida 1967, Orgon in Molière's Tartuffe 1971, Hjalmar Ekdahl in Ingmar Bergman's 1972 production of Ibsen's The Wild Duck, Nero in Jean Racine's Britannicus ( 1974 ), a spot-on portrayal of August Strindberg in play Tribadernas natt ( The Night of the Tribades ) by Per Olov Enquist, the title role in Richard III by Shakespeare ( 1980 ) and the extremely creepy-and slightly perverted-boss Sven in VD (" CEO ") by Stig Larsson in 1985, among others.

The author defended himself in an article published in the Nineteenth century ( January 1885 ), taking for his starting-point a quotation from the preface to Molière's Tartuffe.

He has also directed and designed many classical productions with major theaters around the world including, The Threepenny Opera, The Golem and plays by Václav Havel, Botho Strauss, and Suzan-Lori Parks for The New York Shakespeare Festival, Die Fledermaus at the Paris Opera, Don Giovanni at the Opera de Lille, Philip Glass's Fall of the House of Usher at the American Repertory Theater and The Maggio Musicale in Florence, Woyzeck at Hartford Stage Company, Molière's Don Juan at the Guthrie Theater and The New York Shakespeare Festival, Kathy Acker's Birth of the Poet at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the RO theater in Rotterdam, Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights at the Autumn Festivals in Berlin and Paris.

Nevertheless, on November 26, 1917, the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier de New York opened its season on the stage of the renovated Garrick Theatre with an Impromptu du Vieux-Colombier, a piece written especially for the occasion by Copeau, and Molière's Les Fourberies de Scapin (" Scapin's Pranks ").

" As an afterthought, he wrote a follow-up article on his observation that the musical contained a plot from Molière's The School for Wives, posing the question who, of all of the authors who had revised the tale of Sweeney Todd over the years, had put the plot into the story.

He won the first prize for comedy within a year, and made his début on 7 December 1860 at the Comédie-Française as the comic valet, Gros-René, in Molière's Le Dépit amoureux, but his first great success was as Figaro in The Barber of Seville, in the following year.

Molière's Tartuffe was banned in 1664 when the dévots believed it was satirizing them for being hypocritical in their faith.

In 1965, Marcel Bluwal used the director's house for the tomb of the Commander in his television adaptation of Molière's Dom Juan.