by Molière · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483360286
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The Imaginary Invalid is a play by the French playwright Molière, written in 1673. The play is a comedy-ballet in three acts that satirizes hypochondria and the medical profession. The protagonist, Argan, is a bourgeois obsessed with his health who surrounds himself with charlatan doctors and useless medicines. The play criticizes the credulity of people towards medicine and the greed of some doctors.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed at the Comédie-Française more often than those of any other playwright today. His influence is such that the French language is often referred to as the "language of Molière".
