Molière's French adaptation, L'Avare of 1668, was even more successful and thereafter served as the basis for dramatic imitations, rather than Plautus' work.
In recent years its prominent productions included: "a passing shadow" (2000), "war on Home" (2002), "The Miser" (2003), "Happiness" (2004), "Life Is a Dream (2005).
Peppino repeatedly showed his extraordinary versatility; particularly noteworthy are his performance in Il Guardiano by Harold Pinter and in The Miser by Molière (as Harpagon), where he proved to be a skillful actor whose ability had grown beyond brilliant and dialect plays.
While at Corpus (later the college of David and Ed Miliband), he was features editor of Isis, the student magazine, and a member of the Oxford University Broadcasting Society, also acting in numerous plays and revues, and co-directing Molière's The Miser with Peter Grose.
The Miser's Doom is one of the earliest films featuring a ghost, although previous examples had been produced by Georges Méliès and George Albert Smith the previous year.
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He was known to wider public of his time for his translations of plays by Molière (namely The Miser, The School for Husbands, The School for Wives published under one cover in St Petersburg in 1757 and 1788, and Tartuffe issued in 1757 and 1758) and by Ludvig Holberg.
At "The Three Pigeons" inn, it is a good day for some: the miser Boomblehardt has been out collecting rents from his tenants, and Sergeant Klooque, hero of Johannesburg, has just arrived at the inn on leave and may now flirt with any lady he chooses, without the need to pretend they are his relatives to get around his tyrannical Colonel.
The early 1990s saw Fitzgerald return to playing gigs again, and he also re-launched an acting career, the most high-profile engagement of which was a version of Molière's The Miser at Stratford.
He did not confine himself entirely to still life, but occasionally painted genre pictures, such as "The Miser" (engraved by B. Granger), "The Politician" (engraved by T. Ryder), scripture pieces, such as "The Last Supper", formerly over the altar, but now in the vestry of Farnham Church, and portraits.
He directed at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and appeared there in Douglas Campbell's production of The Miser with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy.
William Jennens (1701–1798) William the Miser, William the Rich, 'the richest commoner in England' who died intestate.
According to the general outline of the legend, the richest Jew in Kraków in the 17th century was Yossele the Miser.