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L'Avare is a 1668 five-act satirical comedy by French playwright Molière. Its title is usually translated as The Miser when the play is performed in English. 1867 edition of the satirical magazine Punch, a British satirical magazine, ground-breaking on popular literature satire. ...
Comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humour with an intent to provoke[[ laughter in general). ...
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The play was first performed in 1668 at the Palais Royal in a period when Moliere's company was, on the one hand, under considerable establishment pressure to modify its output, but on the other hand, under the protection of Louis XIV himself. 1668 (MDCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ...
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Plot summary The Miser's plot, involving a rich money-lender called Harpagon, whose feisty children long to escape from his penny-pinching household and marry their respective lovers, is a comedy of manners to which the 17th-century French upper classes presumably objected. It is less savage, however, and somewhat less realistic than Moliere's earlier play, Tartuffe, which attracted a storm of criticism on its first performance. The comedy of manners satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters, such as the miles gloriosus in ancient times, the fop and the rake during the Restoration, or an old person pretending to be young. ...
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The play is also notable for the way in which it sends up certain theatrical conventions. Many comedies from the Elizabethan period and onwards contain asides which are delivered by characters to the audience and which the other actors ignore. In L'Avare, however, characters generally demand to know who exactly these asides are being delivered to. The Elizabethan Era is the period associated with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558 - 1603) and is often considered to be a golden age in English history. ...
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The play's ending is also self-consciously ridiculous, mocking the pat endings of many comedies that end in sudden revelation and marriage. Fortunately this joke is preserved for modern audiences of a certain age because the conclusion of the play is now rather reminiscent of the emotional climax of the Star Wars trilogy, namely that an unexpected character turns out to be everyone's father. Opening logo to the Star Wars films Star Wars is an epic science fantasy saga and fictional universe created by writer/producer/director George Lucas during the 1970s, and developed on and added to from thereon by Lucas himself and other writers. ...
Roles - Harpagon, father of Cléante, in love with Marianne.
- Cléante, Harpagon's son, lover to Marianne.
- Valère, son to Anselme, and lover to Élise.
- Anselme, father of Valère and Marianne.
- Master Simon, broker .
- Master Jacques, cook and coachman to Harpagon.
- La Flèche, valet to Cléante.
- Brindavoine, and La Meriuche, lackeys to Harpagon.
- A magistrate and his clerk.
- Élise, daughter to Harpagon.
- Marianne, daughter to Anselme.
- Frosine, an intriguing woman, the matchmaker .
- Mistress Claude, servant to Harpagon.
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