The play is a farce -comedy of manners and characters. It is about a free translation of 'The Miser' by Moliere, adapted in the Greek models. It maintains the structure and the basic characters of the myth but the action takes place in Smyrna of 1816. The roles of the Moliere comedy are replaced with equivalent types of Smyrna who talk the language of people, with dialects and topic expressions while the historical references are replaced with Greek proverbs and jokes. Thus, the miser Harpagon becomes an oriental Greek who oppresses his familiars and his general environment with his small-animated passion that dominates him while the persons who surround him are also popular types of Greek life, symbols of social immorality, despotic patriarchy and cultural retrogression.