The Misanthrope | Critical Overview
Moliere is perhaps the greatest writer of the French stage. David Coward, in an introduction to Moliere: The Miser and Other Plays, states that Moliere is "one of the world's greatest comic playwrights." Margaret Webster, in an introduction to Moliere, explains his significance as a literary figure in France, noting, "in his own language he is as towering a figure as Shakespeare is in ours." James F. Gaines and Michael S. Koppisch, in Approaches to Teaching Moliere's Tartuffe and Other Plays, state that "Moliere has, almost since the moment he began writing, been a...
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