The Miser (Annotated)

Molière's The Miser (L'Avare, 1668) is a sharply constructed prose comedy that anatomizes greed through the figure of Harpagon, a widowed patriarch whose obsession with money deforms every bond of family, love, and civic trust. Drawing on Plautus's Aulularia while adapting classical intrigue to the social realities of seventeenth-century France, the play combines farce, verbal wit, and moral satir...