The Imaginary Invalid

Name: The Imaginary Invalid
Author: Molière
ISBN: 9781911495482

Author: Molière
Series: World Classics
Language: English
Length: 102 pages
ISBN: 9781911495482
Published: 18 July 2016
Imprint: Urban Romantics

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Description

The play opens with Argan, a severe hypochondriac, going through the bill from his apothecary (the pharmacist) item by item. He pays out only about half of what is on the bill. That done, he calls for his maid, Toinette. When she fails to appear immediately he shouts and calls her name until she arrives. Toinette is not interested in putting up with Argan’s temper, so she mocks his rage.

Author

Molière (1622–1673), born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, is the great comic dramatist of the French language — actor, poet, and company manager who wrote Tartuffe, The Bourgeois Gentleman, and The Imaginary Invalid. His plays mock hypocrisy, pretension, and the body that will not behave, and they still fill the Comédie-Française more often than any other playwright.

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