Used book – The School for Wives: followed by the "Comedy and Satire" study guide, Jean-Baptiste Molière (known as Poquelin)

One of Molière's most famous comedies, followed by a literary journey "Comedy and Satire." In an edition compliant with the new French high school curriculum, including artistic and cultural extensions and a New Baccalaureate section.

The work Arnolphe, an old curmudgeon, raised Agnès, his ward, in solitude and ignorance, with the aim of making her a devoted wife. But the sincere love of young Horace will foster the transformation of the ingenue.

Through this "great comedy," Molière defends women's right to emancipate themselves from the tyranny of authority.

The "Comedy and Satire" journey 10 key texts to analyze the history, targets, and methods of satirical comedy:

1. At the sources of satire: the freedom to denounce?

2. Molière or the satire of 17th-century morals 3. Comedy and political satire: the theater of the Enlightenment The dossier All the resources useful for high school students to study the work within the framework of the new curriculum:

• a pre-text to place the work in its context • throughout the text, the section "Keys to guide you" • after the text:

– benchmarks on the work – a grouping of complementary texts "Misunderstandings, errors, and confusions" – sample subjects for the written and oral sections of the new French baccalaureate Artistic and cultural extensions 6 photos of emblematic stagings, and tools to analyze and compare them.

And a pedagogical guide On www.classiques-et-cie.com. Free access reserved for teachers, it includes all the answer keys: questionnaires throughout the text, baccalaureate subjects, image analyses.