THE MISER. (L'AVARE.)

BY

MOLIERE


TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH PROSE

_WITH A SHORT INTRODUCTION AND EXPLANATORY NOTES._

BY

CHARLES HERON WALL



This play was acted for the first time on September 9, 1668. In it,
Moliere has borrowed from Plautus, and has imitated several other
authors, but he far surpasses them in the treatment of his subject.
The picture of the miser, in whom love of money takes the place of all
natural affections, who not only withdraws from family intercourse,
but considers his children as natural enemies, is finely drawn, and
renders Moliere's Miser altogether more dramatic and moral than those
of his predecessors.

Moliere acted the part of Harpagon.