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1690173569London: J.M. for H. Herringman 1690. Hardcover. Good boards unattached pages foxed and browned but all pages readable. Marbled boards Riviere binding 54 2 pp no illustrations. An adaptation of the French Psyché by Molière P. Corneille and Quinault. Sometimes considered the first English opera was produced at the Dorset Garden theatre in 1674. A very rare book in readable condition. J.M. for H. Herringman hardcover books
168816853Paris 1688. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. 3 x 5'. Sixth printing of this classic. iv 3-108pp. Later binding of stiff boards covered in marbled paper. Full page engraved frontispiece followed by the title list of actors and the text. A reimpression of the Elzevir first edition of 1671. A very good copy. Rare in any 17th century edition. Guibert Bibliographie des OEuvres de Moliere p. 315. hardcover books
16660502Moliere 1622-1673; Lully Jean Baptiste 1632-1687. L'Amour Medecin. Paris: Chez Theodore Girard 1666. 1666 Priv. Dec 30 1665; Acheve Jan 15 1666. Originale edition. <br /><br />12mo. 5 pl. 59 i.e. 95pp. Lacking frontispiece. Signatures: a6 A-D12 a1 frontispiece. Page 95 incorrectly numbered 59. Comedy-ballet without the music by Lully a contemporary date on title page in ink notes the first performance as Mar 22 1665. Bound by Trautz-Bauzonnet in red morocco gilt rules. A very handsome copy. Slipcase. <br /><br />Love-sick Lucinde feigns illness. Her father Sganarelle brings in one doctor after another but he rejects their cures. Finally Lucinde's beloved Clitandre masquerading as a doctor suggests that marriage is the cure for this kind of love-sickness but Sganarelle wants to keep Lucinde and her dowry for himself. The miserly father is tricked into signing a marriage contract between the two lovers which he thinks is a only a placebo to raise her spirits. <br /><br />Commissioned by the King for a royal entertainment at Versailles and first performed on September 15 1664 l'Amour Medecin is a comedy ballet with music by Lully in three acts. With ballet entries interspresed through the action entre-actes are described in the text. In his Preface MoliÄre cautions that one should not judge the play without seeing it. He also writes that he wrote the ballet in only five days and apologizes that it is only a sketch. He praises Lully's music. <br /><br />The comedy ballet form was in part created by Moliere himself along with the ballet teacher and theorist Pierre Beauchamps. For this form the ballet entries themselves had a dramatic structure in contrast to the early ballets du cour where the entries were metaphorical not dramatic. Moliere believed that ballets were comedies without words. In the case of this ballet comedy music and dance are the greatest doctors.<br /><br />The plot of the play in which a number of quack doctors attempt to cure a love-sick patient is probably based on Charles Sorel's novel Palais d'Angelie 1622. The play is now chiefly remembered for its devastating satire on physicians and has often been referred to as Les Médecins. The enduring play was produced three times in 1665 at Versailles 27 times in Paris and from 1680 when the Comedie Francaise was established 274 times until 1900.<br /><br />References: Guibert A.J. Moliere p. 157; Lacroix P. Bib. moliéresque 11; Tchemerzine VIII p309. OCLC locations: UCLA; Yale; Harvard Oxford.<br /><br />The comedy-ballet form was in part created by Molière himself along with the ballet teacher and theorist Pierre Beauchamps. <br />Love-sick Lucinde feigns illness. Her father Sganarelle brings in one doctor after another but he rejects their cures. Finally Lucinde's beloved Clitandre masquerading as a doctor suggests that marriage is the cure for this kind of love-sickness but Sganarelle wants to keep Lucinde and her dowry for himself. The miserly father is tricked into signing a marriage contract between the two lovers which he thinks is a only a placebo to raise her spirits<br /><br />Full description cut and paste the link below to your browser: <br /><br /><b>www.goldenlegend.com/pdfs/Moliere.pdf </b><br /> Girard hardcover books
168295843Paris: Chez Denys Thierry 1682. First complete and first illustrated collected edition including 6 previously unpublished plays of the works of Moliere. Small octavo 8 volumes. Finely bound in full crushed red morocco by Pouillet gilt titles to the spine raised bands inner dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt illustrated with engravings throughout. In near fine condition. An exceptional example. Jean-Baptiste Poquelin known by his stage name Molière baptised January 15 1622 February 17 1673 was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. Among Molière's best-known works are Le Misanthrope The Misanthrope L'École des femmes The School for Wives Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur Tartuffe or the Imposter L'Avare The Miser Le Malade imaginaire The Imaginary Invalid and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme The Bourgeois Gentleman. Born into a prosperous family and having studied at the Collège de Clermont now Lycée Louis-le-Grand Molière was well suited to begin a life in the theatre. Thirteen years as an itinerant actor helped him polish his comic abilities while he began writing combining Commedia dell'arte elements with the more refined French comedy. Chez Denys Thierry hardcover books
