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From The Big Book of Molière Monologues by actor/author Timothy Mooney. A collection of over 160 of Molière's funniest monologues in new rhymed iambic pentameter versions. In The Love Doctor Molière once again presents the classic daughter-needing- doctor’s-ministrations scenario, with a girl who only pretends to be ill. We may assume that this was a very popular commedia routine with Molière’s troupe during their touring years (1645-1658), and that when he needed a new play, he had thirteen years of improvised scenarios to draw from, a source of endless invention. The play proceeds like a series of Commedia lazzi, and one can almost tell the plot through the assumed titles of each: “The neighbors who give self-interested advice;” “The father who pretends to, but doesn’t really want to understand his daughter,” etc. These lazzi only barely connect with each other to patch together a plot. In fact, most of the characters appear only once and are then seemingly forgotten, but each individual scene brings at least one robust belly laugh to the inventive action, and at the very least, one might imagine from this play what it was like to see Molière’s troupe, circa 1643-1658, careening their way through the many tangents into which their wild improvisations might launch them.see less

From The Big Book of Molière Monologues by actor/author Timothy Mooney. A collection of over 160 of Molière's funniest monologues in new rhymed iambic pentameter versions. In The Love Doctor Molière once again presents the classic daughter-needing- doctor’s-ministrations scenario, with a girl who only pretends to be ill. We may assume that this was a very...see more