The Imaginary Invalid
by Molière, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Molière's classic comic masterpiece is here brilliantly translated by renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (two-time winner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month-Club Translation Prize) and playwright/director Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Oliver Award).

"He's an impertinent one, your Molière, with his comedies … Damn it to hell, if I were the doctors, I’d take revenge for his impudence!

And if he was sick, I'd let him die unattended.

Whatever he might say or do, I wouldn't prescribe the least little bleeding, the least little enema for him, and I'd say to him: 'Croak!

Croak!'" —ACT THREE

While playing Argan, Molière collapsed during the fourth performance of THE IMAGINARY INVALID and died shortly after on 17 February 1673.