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The Jealousy of le Barbouillé

Molière

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Book Excerpt: 
. . . makes gallant; then by adding man you have gallant man. But to come back to what I said; What do you take me for?

Bar. I take you for a doctor. But let us speak a little of what I have to propose to you. You must know that …

Doc. Let me tell you first that I am not only a doctor, but that I am one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten times doctor. Firstly, number one is the base, the foundation, and the first of all numbers; so am I the first of all doctors, the most learned of the learned. Secondly, there are two faculties essential for a perfect knowledge of things: the sense and the understanding; I am all sense, all understanding: ergo, I am twice doctor.

Bar. Agreed. What I want …

Doc. Thirdly, according to Aristotle, the number three is that of perfection; I am perfect; and every thing I do is perfect: ergo, I am three times doctor.

Bar. Very well then, doctor….

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Community Reviews

its really good to read these types of dramas right before Valentine's day. This one was not quite as good as The Flying Doctor, but it'd has some memorable and comedic scenes. most of them involve the Doctor.

I find it off that Moliere played la Barbouille instead of the doctor like he did in the f

A second play by Moliere, this one had me laughing out loud. A husband and wife are having marital difficulties - he thinks she is having affairs and she thinks he is drunk and carousing. What to do? Talk to the smartest man in town - the town doctor - and get his advice. But what hilarity as the do

yeah ... this man shouldn't have rights let alone a pretty wife like Angélique

This is the second 1 act play by Molière that I have read. It is the story of a jealous husband.

I find the two one act plays of Molière to be his funniest. I did not find the other comedies particuly funny, but I have only read six or so plays. I have not yet read any of his famous work.

The play is

LE DOCTEUR.
- Il faut avouer, monsieur Gorgibus, que c'est une belle qualité que de dire les choses en peu de paroles, et que les grands parleurs, au lieu de se faire écouter, se rendent le plus souvent si importuns, qu'on ne les entend point. ‘Virtutem primam esse puta compescere linguam’ Oui, la pl

Détente avec une courte farce en un acte et en prose, de la plume du prodige Molière.

Ce texte met en avant les interminables disputes d’un couple dont l’apparence dramatique n’est que trompeuse, celles-ci sont agrémentées de discours émanant de personnages aussi farfelus les uns les autres.

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