WorkMolière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)

Le Misanthrope [The Misanthrope]

Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622–1673) · 1666

InferredMargaret Fuller engages with Molière's celebrated play *Le Misanthrope* (1666) by commenting on its titular character, Alceste, and its creator.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

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Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“I never read any life of Molière. Are the facts very interesting? You see clearly in his writing what he was... no nearer approach to misanthropy than his Alceste.”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.

Inferred Margaret Fuller engages with Molière's celebrated play Le Misanthrope (1666) by commenting on its titular character, Alceste, and its creator.