“Look at all these people. They’re all looking at me. And laughing. So you’re all in on it…”  So says the Miser, in the play “L’Avare,” as he looks out at the audience, accusing them of collusion in the theft of his money. The French playwright Molière, writing in 1668, anticipa

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