[A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE AUTHOR]
His real name was Jean Baptiste Poquelin. He was born in 1622 in Paris. He is primarily remembered as a dramatist, but he had also formed a theatrical company, produced his own plays, worked as an actor and as a manager of the troupe. From 1659, when his play Les Prècieuses Riducles took Paris by storm, until his death in 1673, there was no year that passed without production of one or more of his plays.
His most well known plays are: Les Prècieuses Riducles, L'Ecoles des Maris, L'ecole des Femmes, L'Amour Mèdecin, Le Misanthrope, Le Mèdecin Malgrè Lui, L'Avare, Tartufe, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Les Fourberies de Scapin, Les Femmes Savantes and Le Malade Imaginaire.
It has been said of him, that perhaps no dramatist, save Shakespeare, ever joined so much wit to so much seriousness.
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