Question: The Warlock in Spite of Himself is a science fantasy novel by American author Christopher Stasheff, published in 1969, the title is a play on the title of which French playwright and actor, known by what stage name?

Context articles: Starship Troupers
The Exotic Enchanter
The Warlock in Spite of Himself
Sir Harold of Zodanga
Harold Shea
Molière
Christopher Stasheff
Jack of Shadows
Sir Harold and the Gnome King
The Enchanter Reborn

Starship Troupers is a science fiction series of novels by American author Christopher Stasheff.
 It includes three books: "A Company Of Stars", "We Open On Venus" and "A Slight Detour".
 It also occupies the same continuity as Stasheff's "Warlock of Gramarye" and "Rogue Wizard" series.
 Set in the 26th Century, after the human race has established colonies on distant planets and interstellar commerce supports Terra (Earth, sometimes known affectionately as "Old Earth") and the Terran Sphere of worlds, the novels follow the establishment and subsequent journeys of "The Star Theater Company", the first-ever interstellar theatre troupe.
 The series title, "Starship Troupers", was intended as a pun on Robert Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" novel.
The Exotic Enchanter is an anthology of four fantasy short stories edited by science fiction and fantasy authors L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff.
 "The Exotic Enchanter" is the second volume in the continuation of the Harold Shea series by de Camp and Fletcher Pratt.
 It was first published in paperback by Baen Books in 1995; an ebook edition followed from the same publisher in September 2013.
 All the pieces are original to the anthology.
The Warlock in Spite of Himself is a science fantasy novel by American author Christopher Stasheff, published in 1969.
 It is the first book in "Warlock of Gramarye" series.
 The title is a play on the title of Molière's "Le Médecin malgré lui" ("The Doctor, in Spite of Himself").
Sir Harold of Zodanga is a fantasy novella by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, part of the Harold Shea series he originated in collaboration with Fletcher Pratt and later continued with Christopher Stasheff.
 It was first published in paperback by Baen Books in de Camp and Stasheff's shared world anthology "The Exotic Enchanter" (1995).
 It was later reprinted together with the remainder of the de Camp/Pratt Harold Shea stories in the collection "" (2007).
The "Harold Shea" Stories is a name given to a series of five science fantasy stories by the collaborative team of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt and to its later continuation by de Camp alone, Christopher Stasheff, Holly Lisle, John Maddox Roberts, Roland J. Green, Frieda A. Murray, Tom Wham, and Lawrence Watt-Evans.
 De Camp and Stasheff collectively oversaw the continuations.
 The series is also known as the "Enchanter" series, the "Incomplete Enchanter" series (after the first collection of stories) or the "Compleat Enchanter" series.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière ( or ; ] ; 15 January 162217 February 1673), was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature.
 Among Molière's best known works are "The Misanthrope", "The School for Wives", "Tartuffe", "The Miser", "The Imaginary Invalid", and "The Bourgeois Gentleman".
Christopher Stasheff (born 1944) is an American science fiction author and fantasy author whose novels include "The Warlock in Spite of Himself" (1969) and "Her Majesty's Wizard" (1986).
 He has a PhD.
 in Theatre and taught radio and television at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico; he is now retired and living in Champaign, Illinois.
 Stasheff has been noted for his blending of science fiction and fantasy, as seen in his "Warlock" series, which placed an "'epic fantasy' in a science fictional frame".
 Stasheff's writing is often seen in the moral and ethical mentor style similar to Terry Goodkind, Terry Brooks or J.R.R. Tolkien.
Jack of Shadows is a science fantasy novel by American author Roger Zelazny.
 According to him, the name of the book (but not the titular character) was an homage to Jack Vance.
 In his introduction to the novel he mentioned that he tried to capture some of the exotic landscapes that are frequent in Vance's work.
 Zelazny wrote it in first draft, with no rewrites.
 The novel was serialized in the " Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" in 1971 and published in book form that same year.
 It was nominated for a 1972 Hugo Award and finished #4 in the 1972 Locus Poll for Best Novel.
"Sir Harold and the Gnome King" is a fantasy novella American writer L. Sprague de Camp, part of the Harold Shea series he originated in collaboration with Fletcher Pratt and later continued with Christopher Stasheff.
 It was first published in the 1990 World Fantasy Convention Program Book.
 It first appeared in book form as a limited edition hardcover chapbook issued by Wildside Press in August, 1991, with a paperback edition following from the same publisher in October of the same year.
 In addition to the title story, the book includes an afterword by de Camp and illustrations by Stephen Fabian; the paperback edition also has a cover by Fabian.
 The story was afterwards reprinted, slightly revised, in de Camp and Stasheff's shared world anthology "The Enchanter Reborn" (1992).
 The original version was later reprinted together with the remainder of the de Camp/Pratt Harold Shea stories in the collection "" (2007).
The Enchanter Reborn is an anthology of five fantasy short stories edited by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff, the first volume in their continuation of the Harold Shea series by de Camp and Fletcher Pratt.
 It was first published in paperback by Baen Books in 1992; an ebook edition followed from the same publisher in May 2013.
 The book has also been translated into Italian.
 All but one of the pieces are original to the anthology; the exception, de Camp's "Sir Harold and the Gnome King", first appeared in the World Fantasy Convention program book in 1990 and was then published as a separate chapbook in 1991.