1622–1673
Molière
Actor-manager of Louis XIV’s comic stage. He turned hypocrisy, medicine, and marriage into a theater of types that still sting.
Perfected the comedy of manners as social X-ray—laughter with a diagnostic edge.
1622–1673
Actor-manager of Louis XIV’s comic stage. He turned hypocrisy, medicine, and marriage into a theater of types that still sting.
Perfected the comedy of manners as social X-ray—laughter with a diagnostic edge.