Moli

Paris—1644, 22-year-old Jean-Baptist Poquelin, also known as Molière is not yet the writer that history recognizes as the father and true master of comic satire, author of The Misanthrope and Tartuffe, and a dramatist to rank alongside Shakespeare and Sophocles.

ianrandalstrock's Journal ianrandalstrock 2007

A book called Molière notre contemporain was published in 1929, and of course in one sense Molière will always be everyone's contemporary.

Molière in New York Wood, Michael 1977

In France he has been called the Molière of the twentieth century; and there is some truth in the parallel, for Shaw himself believes that he was following classical tendencies in dramatic art.

Nobel Prize in Literature 1925 - Presentation Speech 1925

Those only would have been chosen members of it whose works will last as long as the English tongue, such as Dean Swift, Mr. Prior, whom we saw here invested with a public character, and whose fame in England is equal to that of La Fontaine in France; Mr. Pope, the English Boileau, Mr. Congreve, who may be called their Molière, and several other eminent persons whose names I have forgot; all these would have raised the glory of that body to a great height even in its infancy.

Letter XXIV-On the Royal Society and Other Academies Voltaire 1909

Whatever the author's nationality, a play doesn't just sashay onto the stage of the 330-year-old, state-subsidized institution whose history began with Moli è re.

French 'Streetcar' Takes a Detour Via Japan Judy Fayard 2011

"La B ê te" is a wan pastiche of Moli è re whose pancake-flat couplets rattle on endlessly, pointlessly and — above all — pretentiously.

Emo-cracy Comes to Broadway Terry Teachout 2010

Classical or contemporary, Moli è re or Dumas, Bernhardt soon mastered them all.

Actress, Seductress Norman Lebrecht 2010

Takara www.takaraparis.com , established in 1958 on rue Moli è re, a few steps from avenue de l'Op é ra in the second arrondissement, on the fringe of what later became "little Tokyo," has consistently maintained a reputation for authentic Japanese cuisine.

Exploring Sushi on the Seine Nidra Poller 2011

On Tuesday, in a scene that would make Moli re beam with pride, Mr. Evra who was stripped of the captaincy and didn't play against South Africa criticized Mr. Domenech for not allowing him to apologize to fans for the strike.

Even the French Hate the French 2010

These longing young lovers; prostitutes and brothel-keepers (all played by men in masks); lecherous or greedy old men; and wily, mocking slaves were to evolve into the stock comic characters of Menander and Aristophanes, Plautus and Terence, 16th - century commedia dell'arte, Ben Jonson and Moli è re.

The Venerable Brought to Vivid Life 2010