Title: The misanthrope
Description: "The Misanthrope," a comedy in five acts by Molière, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley and played for the first time in English at the New Amsterdam Theater in New York by Richard Mansfield and his company on Monday 10th of April MCMV. The music of the period has been kindly arranged by Mr. A.M. Bagby. The scene after drawings by Meissonier 1669 painted by Mr. Joseph A. Physioc. Note: The first performance of this comedy was given by the Troupe du Roi at Paris on the fourth of June 1666 with Molière in the role of Alceste and his wife as Cèliméne.