Moliere (. Molière), actually Jean Baptiste Poquelin (b. 1915 January 1652 in Paris, died. February 17 ibid.), a French comedy regarded as the greatest comedy in the history of French literature , actor, director of the theater.
came from a bourgeois family, he graduated law degree, but the profession has never made. In 1643, he founded in Paris in cooperation with Magdalena Bejart Illustre Théâtre, a traveling troupe, which performed forgotten medieval farce and Italian commedia dell'arte. When the team went bankrupt, Molière was imprisoned for debt. After release from prison continued to force the itinerant actor until 1658, when his troupe return to Paris. In 1659, there has exhibited his amusing comedy wykwintnisie , which was a huge success, winning the favor of King Louis XIV.
Molière believed in the efficacy of teaching from the scene. Comedy distinguished by its extraordinary diversity and the highest artistic value. He practiced so. great comedy show farsowe, comedy and heroic komediobalet. They combined the tradition of the native folk with elements of farce, the Italian commedia dell'arte and classical art of the comic (Aristophanes and Plautus.) Presenting century gallery of human types, also gave a satirical picture of French manners seventeenth century - ridiculed salons exaggeration ( amusing wykwintnisie , staged. 1659), misunderstanding family life (husbands School, staged. 1661, School for Wives, staged. 1662), hypocrisy and mendacity dewotów ( Tartuffe, staged. 1664), wielkopańską pose aristocrats ( Don Juan, staged. 1665), cruel contempt towards worldly honest and straightforward ( Mizantrp , staged. 1666), mania collection of useless wealth ( Miser, staged. 1668). Molière przepoił their work deep humanism - in spite of the bitterness and pessimism believed in human reason and ability to overcome evil and advocated a free and fair choice of their own way. He died on the scene during the issuing of art patient with delusions . His ashes were buried at Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
