Molière

American  

[mohl-yair, maw-lyer] / moʊlˈyɛər, mɔˈlyɛr /

noun

1. Jean Baptiste Poquelin, 1622–73, French actor and playwright.

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Molière British  

/ mɔljɛr /

noun

1. real name Jean-Baptiste Poquelin. 1622–73, French dramatist, regarded as the greatest French writer of comedy. His works include Tartuffe (1664), Le Misanthrope (1666), L'Avare (1668), Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1670), and Le Malade imaginaire (1673)

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Molière Cultural  

1. Nom de plume of Jean Baptiste Poquelin, a seventeenth-century French playwright. He is best known for his comedies of satire, such as The Misanthrope and Tartuffe.

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Example Sentences

Perhaps the most surprising aspect of Lucas Hnath’s new version of Molière’s classic comedy “Tartuffe” is how surprising it isn’t.

From The Wall Street Journal

So it was reasonable to expect that his “Tartuffe,” at New York Theatre Workshop and featuring Matthew Broderick in the title role, might take bold and interesting liberties with Molière’s 1664 play.

From The Wall Street Journal

But it strikes a false and pandering note, since Tartuffe, as in Molière, has been plainly exposed as an opportunistic, lascivious fraud—and the only one in the play.

From The Wall Street Journal

It begins by reminding readers of the incompetent doctors in the plays of French playwright Moliere, men who endangered their patients’ lives.

From Los Angeles Times

The second reaction reminds me of Moliere who described a sudden retreat into home life, to plant our gardens, as it were.

From Salon