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Amphitryon

Molière

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. . .Listen: do you realise that my fist can knock you spinning?

SOS. Why? What fury has seized you now?

MERC. Tell me, who made you so rash as to take the name of Sosie?

SOS. I do not take it; I have always borne it.

MERC. O what a monstrous lie! What confounded impudence! You dare to maintain that Sosie is your name?

SOS. Certainly; I maintain it, for the good reason that the Gods have so ordered it by their supreme power. It is not in my power to say no, and to be any one else than myself.

(Mercury beats him.) MERC. A thousand stripes ought to be the reward of such audacity.

SOS. Justice, citizens! Help! I beseech you.

MERC. So, you gallows-bird, you yell out?

SOS. You beat me down with a thousand blows, and yet do not wish me to cry out?

MERC. It is thus that my arm...

SOS. The action is unworthy. You gloat over the advantage which my want of courage . . . Read More

Community Reviews

Molière mythologique

M’étant mis en tête de lire les grands chefs-d’oeuvre de Molière, je n’avais pas inclu Amphitryon dans la liste. Jusqu’à ce que j’ai vu qu’elle faisait partie des dix pièces magistralement traduites en anglais par le poète américain Richard Wilbur.

Inspirée d’une ancienne légende

Molière využil osvědčeného antického námětu, v němž bohatě rozvinul poměrně jednoduchou, ale plně fuknční zápletku. Jediné, co bych mu vytkl, jsou někdy možná až moc dlouhé dialogy i monology, které bych osobně zkrátil. Rozřešení zápletky na konci jsem čekal trochu překvapivějším (detektivnějším) zp

Moi qui suis fan de Molière, je le découvre autrement. Ce n'est clairement pas sa meilleure pièce à mon goût.
Ici, Amphitryon sort de l'esthétisme traditionnelle de la comédie car nous n'avons plus l'étude d'un caractère, une pièce en 3 actes, le cadre spatio-temporel et la question de la vraisemblan

This is the story of how Hercules was born.

Or conceived.

Which is to say its the story of how a god disguises himself and basically rapes a woman.

Now, if we put that all aside, and if we look at it as an ancient story retold by Molière, then this is a pretty good "minor" play, probably among my favor

ANFITRIÓN de Molière

"El mero error se vuelve auténtico crimen y, aun din consentimiento, la inocencia perece."

Una obra que no me gustó tanto y que si bien es cierto es presentada como comedia tiene creo yo algo de tragedia en muchos pasajes.
La historia es conocida Anfitrión es un general tebano espo

If I was allowed ONE book to keep on a deserted island, the Works of Shakespeare OR the Works of Moliere, it would be Moliere.....in English, of course.

The poets do what pleases them. It is not the only stupidity we have detected in these gentlemen.

Damn! Who would have thought that JBP knew Bill O'R

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