Chrysale is an honest bourgeois whose wife Philaminte, sister Bélise and daughter Armande have caught the craze for philosophy, Descartes’s vortices and fine verse. They mean to marry the sensible younger daughter Henriette to the pompous wit Trissotin, while she loves Clitandre. The servants, the suitors and a notary are all caught up in the battle.
One of Molière’s sharpest late comedies of pretension, in Charles Heron Wall’s translation. Download the free EPUB.