Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, L'Ecole des femmes [The School for Wives]

Eileen Angelini (Middlebury College)

Ed. by Tim Unwin, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.03: French Writing and Culture of the Seventeenth Century: Classical and Baroque, 1600-1700.
Vol. editors: Heather Kirk (University of Western Ontario), Kathrina LaPorta (New York University), Polly Mangerson (DePaul University), Julia Prest (University of St Andrews), Allison Stedman (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1662

Places

France (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Comedy
Play

Resources

L’École des femmes [The School for Wives], a comedy in five acts and alexandrine verse, was first performed on 26 December 1662 at the Palais Royal for Monsieur, the younger brother of Louis XIV. It marks Molière’s creation of the “new” or “grand” French comedy. This masterpiece continues to be produced, read, loved, and imitated, with adaptations in many languages and cultures. It established Molière’s fame and paved the way for his later dramatic comedies: Le Tartuffe, ou l’imposteur [Tartuffe, or the Impostor], Le Misanthrope [The Misanthrope], and L’Avare [The Miser].

The contemporary …

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Citation: Angelini, Eileen. "L'Ecole des femmes". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 February 2011 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4187, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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