hilarious satires of avaricious fathers, "précieuses", social parvenues, doctors and pompous literary types were extremely successful, but his comedies on religious hypocrisy ("Tartuffe") and libertinage ("Don Juan") brought him much criticism from the church, and "Tartuffe" was only performed through the intervention of the king. Many of Molière's comedies, like "Tartuffe", "Don Juan" and the "Le Misanthrope" could veer between farce and the darkest of dramas, and the endings of "Don Juan" and the "Misanthrope" are far from being purely comic. Comedy to the end of the century would continue on the paths traced by Molière: the satire of contemporary morals and manners and the "regular" comedy would dominate, and the last great "comedy" of Louis XIV's reign, Alain-René Lesage's "Turcaret", is an immensely dark play in which almost no character shows redeeming traits. Select list of French theatre after 1659: Molière (pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622–1673) Les précieuses ridicules (comedy) - 1659 L'Ecole des femmes (comedy) - 1662 Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur (comedy) - 1664 Don Juan ou Le festin de pierre (comedy) - 1665 Le Misanthrope (comedy) - 1666 L'Avare (comedy) - 1668 Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (comedy) - 1670 Les Fourberies de Scapin (comedy) - 1671 Les Femmes savantes (comedy) - 1672 Le Malade imaginaire (comedy) - 1673 Thomas Corneille (1625–1709) - brother of Pierre Corneille Timocrate (tragedy) - 1659, the longest run (80 nights) recorded of any play in the century Ariane (tragedy) - 1672 Circée (tragicomedy) - 1675 (cowritten with Donneau de Visé) La Devineresse (comedy) - 1679 (cowritten with Donneau de Visé) Bellérophon (opéra) - 1679 Philippe Quinault (1635–1688). Alceste (musical tragedy) - 1674 Proserpine (musical tragedy) - 1680 Amadis de Gaule (musical tragicomedy) - 1684, based on the Renaissance chivalric novel Armide (musical tragicomedy) - 1686, based on Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered Jean Racine (1639–1699) Andromaque (tragedy) - 1667 Les Plaideurs (comedy) - 1668, Racine's only comedy Bérénice (tragedy) - 1670 Bajazet (tragedy) - 1672 Iphigénie (tragedy) - 1674 Phèdre (tragedy) - 1677 Britannicus (tragedy) - 1689 Esther (tragedy) - 1689 Athalie (tragedy) - 1691 Jacques Pradon (1632–1698) Pyrame et Thisbé (tragedy) - 1674 Tamerlan, ou la mort de Bajazet (tragedy) - 1676 Phèdre et Hippolyte (tragedy) - 1677, this play, released at the same time as Racine's, had a momentary success Jean-François Regnard (1655–1709) Le Joueur (comedy) - 1696 Le Distrait (comedy) - 1697 Jean Galbert de Campistron (1656–1723) Andronic (tragedy) - 1685 Tiridate (tragedy)