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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. Molière’s career and his life came to an end with the production of The Imaginary Invalid. With this play Molière continues to spin some of his greatest themes in a refreshing and hilarious way. The father, Argan, is looking to marry his daughter, Angelique off to a mate who will serve his needs more than hers. We discover him, as the curtain rises, tallying up his many monthly medical expenses, including seemingly endless bleedings and enemas. Argan’s addiction to medicine has led him to seek a doctor/son-in-law as a ploy to get free medical advice. The doctor he has in mind (the nephew of his own doctor) turns out to be a backwards idiot with no social skills. Much of this play might have been unremarkable had Molière not died four performances into the run of the play. He suffered a convulsive attack during the finale, somehow he managing to finish off the play, but dying several hours later, in his own home, some hundred yards away from the theatre. It so happens that no doctor, nor any priest, attended Molière in his final hours, fulfilling the on-stage prediction almost precisely.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. Molière’s career and his life came to an end with the production of The Imaginary Invalid. With this play Molière continues to spin some of his greatest themes in a refreshing and hilarious...see more