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unusual facts about The Miser's Doom


The Miser's Doom

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.


Aulularia

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.

Ivan Kropotov

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.

Jerusalem Khan Theatre

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 De Filippo

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.

Robert Orchard

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.


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