of the 17th century was dominated by Molière. A veteran actor, master of farce, slapstick, the Italian and Spanish theater (see above), and "regular" theater modeled on Plautus and Terence, Molière's output was great and varied. He is credited with giving the French comedy of manners (comédie de mœurs) and the comedy of character (comédie de caractère) their modern form. His 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 (Dom Juan) brought him criticism from the church; Tartuffe was only performed because of the king's intercession. Many of Molière's comedies (like Tartuffe, Dom Juan and Le Misanthrope) veered between farce and the darkest of dramas, and their endings are far from purely comic. Molière's Les précieuses ridicules was certainly based on an earlier play by Samuel Chappuzeau (best known for his work Le Theatre Francois (1674), which contains the most detailed description of French theatre during this period). Comedy until the end of the 17th century would continue on the path traced by Molière; the satire of contemporary morals and manners and the "regular" comedy would predominate, and the last great "comedy" of Louis XIV's reign (Alain-René Lesage's Turcaret) is a dark play in which almost no character exhibits redeeming traits. Below is a select list of French theater after 1659: Comedies of Molière (pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622–1673) Les précieuses ridicules 1659 L'Ecole des femmes 1662 Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur 1664 Dom Juan ou Le festin de pierre 1665 Le Misanthrope 1666 L'Avare 1668 Le Bourgeois gentilhomme 1670 Les Fourberies de Scapin 1671 Les Femmes savantes 1672 Le Malade imaginaire 1673 Thomas Corneille (1625–1709, brother of Pierre Corneille) Timocrate (tragedy) 1659, with the longest run (80 nights) recorded of any play of the 17th century Ariane (tragedy) 1672 Circé (tragicomedy) 1675 (cowritten with Donneau de Visé) Psyché (opera) 1678 (in collaboration with Molière and Jean-Baptiste Lully) La Devineresse (comedy) 1679 (cowritten with Donneau de Visé) Bellérophon (opera) 1679 Médée (tragedy) 1693 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) La Thébaïde (tragedy) 1664 Alexandre le Grand (tragedy) 1665 Andromaque (tragedy) 1667 Les plaideurs (comedy) 1668, Racine's only comedy Brittanicus (tragedy) 1669 Bérénice (tragedy) 1670 Bajazet (tragedy)