Molière

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...

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...

SC 's Molière adaptation Love's Contrivance; or, Le Medecin Malgre Luy opened anonymously at Drury Lane .

It was said that she read Molière at twelve, and that she disguised herself as a boy in order to study at Cambridge University .

Some years after her brother Alfred's time at Boulogne in France, she followed him in staying in the same family, that of Monsieur Bonnefoy , who ran a school in his house. Lessons, theatre...

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 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..

Knowing she had not long to live, AG published Three Last Plays, a volume which included The Would-Be Gentleman (adapted from Molière ), Sancho's Master (from Don Quixote by Cervantes ), and her last play, Dave.

The best part of the novel is the earliest, in which the scene is set with the girls' education. Their sexist father, Justice Bumble (who loves money and considers women as incumbrances),

ATL intended Réflexions nouvelles sur les femmes partly as a riposte to Molière 's mockery of learned women in Les Femmes Savantes. She lent the manuscript of this work to a friend, who broke...

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...

Commenting on the preponderance of Scots translations of Molière, LL observes: We might go a bit light on the philosophy, but at least in ScotlandMolière is funny.

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...

LL published Tartuffe, A Translation into Scots from the Original by Molière: she adapts slightly from the original, moving the setting to the end of the First World War, and uses rhyming couplets throughout.

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...