Overview
Character Name
Harpagon
Show
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Mature Adult
Role Size
Lead
Voice
Non-singer
Time & Place
Harpagon's House, Paris, Seventeenth Century
Analysis
Harpagon is the domineering, widowed father of Cléante and Élise. He is a stereotypical miser who obsesses over money and worries that he never has enough of it. Despite his wealth, he refuses to spend any money on his home or his family. Instead, he has buried his cash box
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