Josiane Grinfas Knihy

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Molière's story of a covetous old miser, obsessively protecting his hoard of gold and neglecting his long-suffering children. Harpagon is obsessed with the wealth he has amassed and always ready to save expenses. Now a widower, he has a son, Cléante, and a daughter, Élise. Although he is over sixty, he is attempting to marry his son's own sweetheart, Mariane. But it seems that Harpagon's pinchpenny paranoia is finally catching up with him - his gold is missing, and this time it might really have disappeared for good... The Miser was first performed in 1668, at the theatre of the Palais-Royal, Paris. This English version, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classic series, is translated and introduced by Martin Sorrell.

Le Médecin malgré lui est une comédie en trois actes en prose. Grand classique de la littérature française. Sganarelle est un bûcheron alcoolique, farceur et séducteur. It bat sa femme Martine et pour se venger de son mari, elle fait croire aux domestiques de Géronte que Sganarelle est un grand médecin mais qu’il faut le battre afin qu’il l’avoue. A point d’être pendu pour ses chicaneries chez Géronte, Sganarelle est tout pardonné par un heureux coup de théâtre et se réconcilie avec Martine.