The Misanthrope * The Doctor in Spite of Himself * The Miser * The Would-Be Gentleman * The Mischievous Machinations of Scapin * The Learned Women * The Imagina

First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback, 2001.

Translates seven plays of Molière and comments upon the background of each dramatization.

The 'greatest hits' of French classical theatre, in vivid and acclaimed new Penguin translations by John Edmunds and with editorial apparatus by Joseph Harris.

Molïre was the stage name of French playwright Jean Baptiste Poquelin, known for satire and controversy.