Les Précieuses ridicules

The Affected Ladies

Year1659

CountryFrance

GenreDrama / Theatre / Plays

Les Précieuses ridicules is a one-act satire by Molière in prose. It takes aim at the précieuses, the ultra-witty ladies who indulged in lively conversations, word games and, in a word, préciosité (preciousness). It was adapted into a lyric comedy and a film.— Wikipedia

Translations

The Misanthrope, and Other Plays: (Such Preposterously Precious Ladies, Tartuffe, A Doctor Despite Himself, The Would-be Gentleman, Those Learned Ladies)

tr. John Wood, David Coward · Penguin · United Kingdom · 2000

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Don Juan and Other Plays

tr. George Graveley, Ian MacLean · Oxford World Classics · United Kingdom · 2008

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