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The Love-Tiff

Molière

Book Overview: 

The characters are well delineated, and fathers, lovers, mistresses, and servants all move about amidst a complication of errors from which there is no visible disentangling. The conversation between Valère and Ascanio in man's clothes, the mutual begging pardon of Albert and Polydore, the natural astonishment of Lucile, accused in the presence of her father, and the stratagem of Éraste to get the truth from his servants, are all described in a masterly manner, whilst the tiff between Éraste and Lucile, which gives the title to the piece, as well as their reconciliation, are considered among the best scenes of this play.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .lousy is now at an end between us; we will be friends; I have relinquished my love; henceforth you can have your own way to further your happiness.

MASC. Would to Heaven it were true!

ERAS. Gros-René knows that I have already another flame elsewhere.

GR.-RE. Certainly; and I also give up Marinette to you.

MASC. Do not let us touch on that point; our rivalry is not likely to go to such a length. But is it certain, sir, that you are no longer in love, or do you jest?

ERAS. I have been informed that your master is but too fortunate in his amours; I should be a fool to pretend any longer to gain the same favours which that lady grants to him alone.

MASC. Certainly, you please me with this news. Though I was rather afraid of you, with regard to our plans, yet you do wisely to slip your neck out of the collar. You have done well to leave a h. . . Read More

Community Reviews

A fun romp. Considering the title, the time period, and the author, it should be all you want and expect it to be. I like it much, much better than Tartuffe.

Deux jeunes gens, Éraste et Valère, courtisent la fille d'Albert, Lucile, dont le cœur penche vers Éraste. Ce dernier apprend de Mascarille, le valet de son rival, que, depuis trois jours, Lucile et Valère se sont mariés. Dans sa fureur, Éraste charge Marinette, la servante de Lucile, d'annoncer à s

Du Molière qui mélange Commedia dell'Arte et Shakespeare avec une pointe de Marivaux avant l'heure, bref, un cocktail parfait !
Ce que je décide de retenir : femme travestie en homme, homosexualité à peine dissimulée et polyamour. En conclusion, Molière était woke

This is the fourth play in the Molière anthology that I am reading to help with learning French. The anthology is roughly chronological but one piece seems to be in the wrong place. Either way, this is the fullest piece by moliere that I have read thus far.

The plot is complicated in the best, 17th c

“Eh! laissez-moi parler un peu, je vous conjure.
Un sot qui ne dit mot ne se distingue pas
D'un savant qui se tait.
D'où vient fort à propos cette sentence expresse
D'un philosophe: Parle afin qu'on te connoisse.
Doncque, si de parler le pouvoir m'est ôté,
Pour moi, j'aime autant perdre aussi l'humanité,
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More exciting Moliere translated by Richard Wilbur and released this year (appears to have been translated in 2005 but not really in a publication for readers). His second verse drama, quite enjoyable, a more complicated plot than The Bungler -- but still a relatively simple farce.