Plays:		29 total
		The Precious Damsels (1659)
		Tartuffe (1664)
		Don Juan (1665)
		The Misanthrope (1666)
		The Doctor in Spite of Himself (1666)
		The Would-Be Gentleman (1670)
		The Imaginary Invalid (1673)

Tartuffe:	May 12, 1664: 		Versailles (3 acts)—Forbidden
		August 5, 1667: 	Publicly Acted (5 acts)—Stopped
		February 5, 1669:	Published and Acted—Attacked by the Company of 					the Holy Sacrament

Comedy:

Farce: Uses exaggerated or caricatured character types; emphasizes physical action (slapstick); employs broad, sometimes obscene, verbal humor. Medieval French farce employed crude realism, familiar type characters, and low (gross) humor; it was entertainment for the common people and evolved into modern puppet shows and cartoons.

Commedia dell 'Arte: Improvised comedy imported from Italy. Plays were loosely-organized, well-known skits with stock characters, improvised dialog, and stylized action.

Comedy of Character: Derived from the Comedy of Humors of the sixteenth century. It emphasized characters with a ruling passion, a character trait that made them unbalanced and irrational—misers, hypocrites, hypochondriacs, jealous husbands.

Comedy of Manners: Derived from Moliere's own comedy and developed on the Restoration stage in England. It is "high comedy" which emphasizes sophisticated (aristocratic), usually stock characters involved in various social intrigues; it generally holds up for ridicule a character who violates the conventions of society and relies for its comic effect on witty dialog and polished word play (repartee).