This is an automatically translated description

Molière is the stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poclain (1622-1673), by which the world knows this French playwright and actor, the founder of the genre of high comedy, where he managed to brilliantly combine the tragic and the comic, the humorous and the serious. According to Molière, comedy should stigmatise human flaws and deal them a crushing blow. "The most brilliant treatises on morality often have much less impact than satire, because nothing touches people more than the portrayal of their shortcomings," the playwright assured. And with good reason. For his most famous plays, including The Misanthrope, The Avaricious, The Burgher-Gentry, The Physician Unwillingly, and Funny Manners, which ridiculed hypocrisy, pomp, arrogance, narrow-mindedness, avarice, and greed for profit, the author was criticised and openly threatened by those who possessed these negative qualities. And such masterpieces as Tartuffe and Don Juan were repeatedly banned by those who could take revenge. The publication also contains other outstanding works of the playwright, which for almost four centuries have been delighting audiences and readers with unchanged success.