The Miser

L'Avare

(1668)

Translation, Introduction, and Notes by Charles Heron Wall.

A five-act comedy in prose by the French playwright Molière. It was first performed on September 9, 1668, in the theatre of the Palais-Royal in Paris.

This play was first produced when Molière's company was under the protection of Louis XIV himself. It is loosely based on the Latin comedy Aulularia by Plautus, from which many incidents and scraps of dialogue are borrowed, as well as from contemporary Italian farces.

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