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The Impostures of Scapin

Author
Molière
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
78 pages
ISBN
9781911495536
Published
20 July 2016
Imprint
Urban Romantics
  • Molière
  • humour
  • comedy
  • satire
  • enlightenment
  • drama
  • wit
  • poetry
  • epic
  • romantic

Description

Scapin constantly lies and tricks people to get ahead. He is an arrogant, pompous man who acts as if nothing were impossible for him. However, he is also a diplomatic genius. He manages to play the other characters off of each other very easily, and yet manages to keep his overall goal — to help the young couples — in sight.

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.