Molière's best plays
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: The Misanthrope · Tartuffe · The Miser. (Updated Jul 24, 2025.)
The comedies still studied at school and still staged everywhere, from Tartuffe to The Imaginary Invalid.
Automatically translated (original in Français). See the original
Top 15
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The Misanthrope
1666. Alceste against the hypocrisy of the court.
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Tartuffe
1664-1669. The false devotee, banned for five years.
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The Miser
1668. Harpagon and his money box.
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Don Juan
1665. The seducer who defies heaven.
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The Imaginary Invalid
1673. His last play: he died after the fourth performance.
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The Bourgeois Gentleman
1670. Monsieur Jourdain speaks prose without knowing it.
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Scapin's Deceits
1671. The craftiest servant in theatre.
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The School for Wives
1662. Arnolphe wants an ignorant wife.
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The Doctor in Spite of Himself
1666. A woodcutter beaten into becoming a doctor.
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The Learned Ladies
1672. A satire of pretentious learning.
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The Affected Young Ladies
1659. His first big success in Paris.
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12
George Dandin
1668. The peasant who married a noblewoman.
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Amphitryon
1668. Jupiter takes a husband's place.
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The School for Husbands
1661. Two brothers, two ways of raising a ward.
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Sganarelle, or the Imaginary Cuckold
1660. A farce of jealousy.
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