In a play by this author, a bailiff named Loyal delivers an eviction notice to a family, though they are saved by the surprise intervention of the king.
Richard Wilbur produced the first rhymed English translation of a play by this author, though he did not keep that play's alexandrine couplets. In a play by this author, a bailiff named Loyal delivers an eviction notice to a family, though they are saved by the surprise intervention of the king. This author died onstage while performing a play whose protagonist promises his daughter to the aspiring doctor Thomas Diafarous in order to obtain free medical attention. He wrote a play in which Valere is in love with Mariane, whose father Orgon has instead promised to marry her to the title religious hypocrite. For 10 points, name this 17th-century French satiric playwright of The Imaginary Invalid and Tartuffe.
Richard Wilbur produced the first rhymed English translation of a play by this author, though he did not keep that play's alexandrine couplets.
Molière [or Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]