Title: The miser
Description: Harpagon is an unashamed miser. Yet he lives in relative wealth that he takes great pains to protect. Now a widower and over seventy years of age, he plans on marrying Mariane - a wholly inappropriate choice given her young age and her existing romantic attachment to his son, Cléante. As part of an impoverished family, Cléante helps secure Mariane a loan much to his father's ire. Meanwhile, Harpagon's daughter Élise is in love with Valère but her father plans to sell her off to a much higher bidder, preferably the wealthy Anselme.