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...

Although Frances had no quarrel with her step-mother, shortly after her father's remarriage she and her sister went to live with their brother at 27 Keppel Street, London, where he had obtained a clerkship...

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),

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.

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...

Marie-Catherine Desjardins responded to the appearance of Molière 's Les Précieuses ridicules with a spirited, sometimes creative summary of it: Récit en prose et en vers de la farce des précieuses.

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.

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.

For her third and last play, the tragi-comedy Le Favory (not translated into English until the twentieth century), Marie-Catherine Desjardins turned to Molière 's company (the Troupe du Roi ). This play (whose title means...

The next work by Rosina Bulwer Lytton (later Baroness Lytton) was a novel or fictional biography: The School for Husbands; or, Molière 's Life and Times.

ET published Summer in the Country, her first novel, with an epigraph from Le misanthrope by Molière .

This was followed by another play, Claudie, about a fallen woman's return to respectability, which opened at the Porte-Saint-Martin theatre in January 1851. Two more plays were quickly developed this year: Molière and Le...