Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, dit Molière - Les Fourberies de Scapin, Psyche & Les Femmes Scavantes - 1682

Rare original edition of this work that brings together several of the great comedies that have made the playwright one of the major authors of classical French theatre and the most perceptive observer of the manners of the 17th century -

This volume features a wide variety of characters from different social strata, from ambitious bourgeois to ridiculous nobles, including pedant doctors, jealous husbands, young lovers, and crafty servants -

Through plots built with precision, Molière denounces the vices of his time, notably vanity, hypocrisy, credulity, pride, obsession with appearances, false knowledges, and abuses of authority -

The plays gathered in this volume show how individuals blinded by their passions or prejudices become the authors of their own misfortunes, while practical intelligence, good sense, and lucidity often restore balance -

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - The Works of Monsieur de Molière - 1682 - Volume VI - Denys Thierry, Claude Barbin & Pierre Trabouillet -
93, 195 pp

Condition of binding: fair, the work in full brown leather of the period, epidermures (skin wear), signs of use with loss of material, notably on the spine, some major defects on boards and spine, cracked spine cords, headcaps damaged, corners worn, rubbing along edges, speckled edges, spine with raised bands, titling and volume numbering gilded on morocco inlay -

Good interior condition, browning and stains, creased leaves, attractive vignette on the title page, handwritten annotations on the flyleaf, pretty headbands, drop capitals, attractive initial, the work includes a single engraving, endpapers in decent condition, sound copy –

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