1. Molière
and
“The Imaginary
Invalid”Laia Sánchez
Clara Valero
UNIVERSAL
LITERATURE

2. Molière
 Jean-Baptiste Poquelin,
Paris, January 15, 1622
 Madeleine Béjart
 The Illustrions Theater
 L’Etourdi
 Le Petit-Bourbon
 Les Préciesues Ridicules
 The School for Husbands,
The School for Wives, The
Misanthrope, The Doctor in
Spite of Himself, Tartuffe,
The Miser, The Imaginary
Invalid

3. ‘’THE IMAGINARY INVALID’’
 INTRODUCTION
- 1673
- Cómedie-ballet
- Music : Marc-Antoine
Charpentier
- Coreograph: Pierre Beauchamp
- 10 February 1673
- Prose: Introduction, 3 acts,
mainly interludes
- Verse:
Eclogue,prologue,mainly
interludes

4. Plot
 First act
- Argan an hypochondriac
- Angelique loves Cléante
- Arrange a marriage Thomas Diafur
 Second act
- Cléante declares love to her
- Argan threats Angelique
- Béralde arrives
 Third act
- Toinette dressep up like a doctor
- Argan pretends his death
- The reality of the family
- Angelique marry Cléante
- Critizes to Medicines and doctors.