# Molière's best plays

The comedies still studied at school and still staged everywhere, from Tartuffe to The Imaginary Invalid.

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- Jul 24, 2025 · Damien Gautier
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## Top 15

1. **The Misanthrope** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1666. Alceste against the hypocrisy of the court.
2. **Tartuffe** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1664-1669. The false devotee, banned for five years.
3. **The Miser** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1668. Harpagon and his money box.
4. **Don Juan** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1665. The seducer who defies heaven.
5. **The Imaginary Invalid** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1673. His last play: he died after the fourth performance.
6. **The Bourgeois Gentleman** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1670. Monsieur Jourdain speaks prose without knowing it.
7. **Scapin's Deceits** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1671. The craftiest servant in theatre.
8. **The School for Wives** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1662. Arnolphe wants an ignorant wife.
9. **The Doctor in Spite of Himself** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1666. A woodcutter beaten into becoming a doctor.
10. **The Learned Ladies** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1672. A satire of pretentious learning.
11. **The Affected Young Ladies** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1659. His first big success in Paris.
12. **George Dandin** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1668. The peasant who married a noblewoman.
13. **Amphitryon** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1668. Jupiter takes a husband's place.
14. **The School for Husbands** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1661. Two brothers, two ways of raising a ward.
15. **Sganarelle, or the Imaginary Cuckold** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1660. A farce of jealousy.

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