Le Misanthrope

[ French luh mee-zahn-trawp ]

noun

1. a comedy (1666) by Molière.

Example Sentences

For at least a century, scholars have argued that the supposed lack of education of Molière, the French playwright responsible for seminal masterpieces including Tartuffe and Le Misanthrope, means he could not have written them.

From The Guardian

Adapting Le Misanthrope was never going to be easy, though: this time, all those witty servant girls, broad elements of farce and implausible happy endings were thin on the ground.

From The Guardian

Then Gemma pointed out that Le Misanthrope was considered Molière's finest play and that, by the time our version hit the boards, Keira and Damian would be gracing pastures new.

From The Guardian

I avoided Le Misanthrope, which sends up the hypocrisies of French aristocratic society, because Martin Crimp's contemporary version, starring Keira Knightley and Damian Lewis, was pulling in audiences in London's West End.

From The Guardian

Racine, I fear, would have made more plays like Bérénice; La Fontaine fewer Fables and more Contes; Molière himself would have run to Scapins, and might not have attained to the austere eminence of Le Misanthrope.

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