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The Forced Marriage

work by Molière

Also known as: “Le Mariage forcé”

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discussed in biography

In Molière: Molière as actor and as playwright
…in Le Mariage forcé (1664; The Forced Marriage), from doubts about marriage expressed by Rabelais’s character Panurge, and in Le Médecin malgré lui he starts from a medieval fable, or fabliau, of a woodcutter who, to avoid a beating, pretends he is a doctor. On such skeleton themes Molière animates…
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role of Béjart

In Louis Béjart
…in Le Mariage forcé (1664; The Forced Marriage), and Don Luis in Don Juan, ou le festin de pierre (1665; Don John; or, The Libertine). He was lamed in a brawl and retired on a pension in 1670.
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