Molière

EP 's two-act comedy The Intrigues of a Morning (adapted from Molière 's Monsieur de Pourclaugnac) was produced at Covent Garden . It was printed the same year, dedicated to Mary Champion de Crespigny .

The Abbey Theatre , Dublin, produced AG 's The Doctor in Spite of Himself, translated from Molière 's Le médecin malgré lui, the first of her Molière translations..

MCV 's Le Favory became the first play by a woman to be given at a command performance before the French monarch (with newly-composed music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and a prologue, now lost, by Molière ).

LL followed this with Miseryguts, an adaptation altered to fit the contour of present-day Scotland of Molière 's Le misanthrope. Its world premiere took place at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh...

Her biographer, Katharine Anthony , finds her plays influenced by the classic models of Molière and Shakespeare ; astonishingly confident, if sometimes crass, in their satirical realism; and written with feeling as well as thought.

She gives her chapters epigraphs, many of them eighteenth-century: the Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, quoted in French on the title-page and to open volume three; Molière and Pope 's Rape of the Lock...

But the context is still the fashionable jungle. Mr Perry can conceive of no higher glory than wealth and social success, and is ruthless in pursuit of these for his daughter and thus himself. Fat...

This satirizes as Sir Patient Fancy a strongly Whiggish London alderman, Sir Patience Ward . It borrows a good deal from Molière : chiefly, and with acknowledgement, from Le malade imaginaire, but also from...

Frances Milton never blames her father for his unkindness; she still owes him total gratitude and devotion, which she seems to regard as on a par with our debt of love and gratitude to God...

The narrative is at first somewhat flat-footed in its insistence that this is not a novel, but it acquires further flavour whenever the old gentleman telling it becomes self-referential. His daughter, he says, acts the...

This story is a comic reworking of various fairy tales including Dick Whittington, Jack the Giant Killer, and Bluebeard. The last of these is suggested by the bereaved wife's lament (with reference...

The Author's Preface to Réflexions begins disarmingly with the writer following her rambling thoughts, but shifts to a muted challenge when she declares herself offended to see Men so blind to their own interest, as...

Lady Frances, newly rich, sees herself as holding her fortune in trust for her young nephew and for society as a whole: She considered society is manifestly maintained by a circulation of kindness.

TCP 's second serious lover was the impecunious second son of knighted landscape gardener Sir John Southcote . The son was a Catholic, a womaniser, and an early user of patent-leather shoes. TCP does not...

Beginning around 1904, EN attended a series of boarding schools, including the expensive and exclusive St James's School near West Malvern in Worcestershire, the Catholic Convent at Teignmouth, and Miss Rosina Filippi 's...