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Translator: Charles Heron Wall
THE MISER.
MOLI?RE
Translated into English Prose
With a Short Introduction and Explanatory Notes.
CHARLES HERON WALL
This play was acted for the first time on September 9, 1668. In it, Moli?re 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 Moli?re's Miser altogether more dramatic and moral than those of his predecessors.
Moli?re acted the part of Harpagon.
PERSONS REPRESENTED.
THE MISER.
VAL. What, dear ?lise! you grow sad after having given me such dear tokens of your love; and I see you sigh in the midst of my joy! Can you regret having made me happy? and do you repent of the engagement which my love has forced from you?
VAL. What can you possibly fear from the affection you have shown me?
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