How To Use Moliere In A Sentence
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A gentleman should know those which I call classical works, in every language; such as Boileau, Corneille, Racine, Moliere, etc., in French;
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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a revival of a neglected play by Moliere
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The transgressive plays of Molière's greatest period forced Louis XIV and Colbert finally to make censorship a systematic, bureaucratic institution.
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Here the poet called up into pictorial presence, and informed with life, grace, beauty, infinite friendly mirth and wondrous naturalness of expression, the people of whom his dear books told him the stories, — his Shakspeare, his Cervantes, his Moliere, his Le Sage.
Roundabout Papers
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Was he the unacknowledged father of Madeleine's ‘sister’ (actually her daughter), Armande, whom Moliere married when she was twenty and he forty?
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The springy elegance of his mind, which serves to clarify the problems of life, not to muddle them with vatic obscurities, has brought him triple glory—as a poet, a translator no one has captured Molière in English better than he and a lyricist.
A Great Living Poet's Rare Art of Reticence
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English jeunesse doree to flock and see Moliere played in French, by a
The Elusive Pimpernel
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Turning to Molière, Braider examines tensions obtaining between text and performance in Amphytrion, a play that thematizes the problematics of doubles.
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Leong recalls his own recent staging of Molière's Le Malade Imaginaire, for the benefit of an audience of both anglophones and francophones.
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He was interred in the burial-ground of Père la Chaise, between the tombs of Molière and La
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 346, December 13, 1828
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It is to be feared that in roving among those shelves in Great Russell-street he showed himself something of a freebooter, taking his "bien" wherever it was to be found; but did not Molière frankly acknowledge the same practice?
Birds of Prey
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In the same period as Pascal, Molière's biting social comedies and tragedies reflected much beyond themselves in space and time.
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By the word devotee, we understand what Louis XIV. and Moliere did, persons the piety of whom consists in external observances; pious and charitable persons have nothing to do with this class.
The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
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[Footnote: Molière, Racine, and Corneille always call the dramatis personae _acteurs_, and not _personnages_.]
The Blunderer
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Molière's Le Malade Imaginaire we find catharsis pre - sented in a farcical situation: Clysterium donare, Postea seignare, Ensuita purgare (“With a clyster deterge, then let the blood spurge, and finally purge”).
CATHARSIS
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Francofolies, he is called, this special time when minstrels and jongleurs assemble to share their dreams and secrets in the tongue of Moliere.
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In other words, whereas Moliere is a farceur, Kleist is a Romantic.
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Moliere himself disclaims all intention of attacking the true precieuse; but the world is not given to fine discrimination, and the true suffers from the blow aimed at the false.
The Women of the French Salons
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Twelfth-century art was not precise; still less "precieuse," like Moliere's famous seventeenth-century prudes.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
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England (unless _Comus_ be called a masque), and which are worth comparing with the ballets and spectacle pieces of Molière.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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Molière, in his best pieces, is as superior to the pure but cold Terence, and to the buffoon Aristophanes, as to the merry-andrew Dancourt.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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He uses Moliere's play to make a film inside a film about hypocrisy (specifically swindling money from wealthy people using a disguise).
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They give praise and expect it in their turns: they commend their Patrus and Molières, as well as their Condès and Turennes; their Pellisons and Racines have their elogies, as well as the prince whom they celebrate; and their poems, their mercuries, and orations, nay, their very gazettes are filled with the praises of the learned.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
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Here the poet called up into pictorial presence, and informed with life, grace, beauty, infinite friendly mirth and wondrous naturalness of expression, the people of whom his dear books told him the stories, — his Shakspeare, his Cervantes, his Moliere, his Le Sage.
Roundabout Papers
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Further:The spectre of Greece being plunged into ungovernability -- as if the political shenanigans and ongoings in Athens do not already resemble a Moliere farce – will, it seems, save Papandreou's skin.
Greek PM Papandreou wins confidence vote - November 4 2011
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When we have gone to sleep with a maddening toothache and are conscious of it only as a little girl whom we attempt, time after time, to pull out of the water, or as a line of Molière which we repeat incessantly to ourselves, it is a great relief to wake up, so that our intelligence can disentangle the idea of toothache from any artificial semblance of heroism or rhythmic cadence.
Swann's Way
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Neil Bartlett is taking his leave as artistic director in great style, with his elegantly idiomatic translation of one of Molière's greatest plays, and a production that is among the very best Molière I've seen.
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Indeed, Moliere was such a late bloomer as a writer that we don't even know what questions to ask.
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And, finally, pratfalls are a universal language, and Moliere never betrayed his debt to the Italian tradition of commedia dell'arte.
