Fayolle moliere biography death

His face crumples. The audience gasps — is something wrong? But the clown is grinning now, all is well, the dancing grows frenzied, the play rushes on to its end. Not till the next day will the audience find out what happened afterwards. They carried the clown off the stage in his chair, and rushed him home.

Fayolle moliere biography death: Death, , Roche-la-Molière, Loire,

He was coughing blood, dying. He asked for his wife, and for a priest to confess him. They failed to arrive before he died. He is their greatest comic playwright, unique in that he also directed his own plays and wrote his greatest parts for himself. Centuries later, this still gives the modern audience a frisson. Nine years earlier, in The School for Wives , the first of his great verse comedies, he played the part of a ridiculous old bachelor determined to marry an innocent young girl decades younger than him.