molière in English
noun
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( 1622–73 ) , French playwright; pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin . He wrote more than 20 comic plays about contemporary France, developing stock characters from Italian commedia dell'arte . Notable works: Tartuffe (1664), Le Misanthrope (1666), and Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1670).
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1. Molière continued as the official author of court entertainments.
2. In 1673, during a production of his final play, The Imaginary Invalid, Molière, who suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis, was seized by a coughing fit and a haemorrhage while playing the hypochondriac Argan.