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The Magnificent Lovers
Molière
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The King [Louis XIV], who will have nothing but what is magnificent in all he undertakes, wished to give his court an entertainment which should comprise all that the stage can furnish. To facilitate the execution of so vast an idea, and to link together so many different things, his Majesty chose for the subject two rival princes, who, in the lovely vale of Tempe, where the Pythian Games were to be celebrated, vie with each other in fêting a young princess and her mother with all imaginable gallantries.
The King [Louis XIV], who will have nothing but what is magnificent in all he undertakes, wished to give his court an entertainment which should comprise all that the stage can furnish. To facilitate the execution of so vast an idea, and to link together so many different things, his Majesty chose for the subject two rival princes, who, in the lovely vale of Tempe, where the Pythian Games were to be celebrated, vie with each other in fêting a young princess and her mother with all imaginable gallantries.
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Sos. I can fancy all this magnificence, and as there are generally so many people to cause confusion at these festivals, I did not care to increase the number of unwelcome guests.
Cli. You know that your presence never spoils anything, and that you are never in the way wherever you go. Your face is welcome everywhere, and is not one of those ill-favoured countenances which are never well received by sovereigns. You are equally in favour with both princesses, and the mother and the daughter show plainly enough the regard they have for you; so that you need not fear to be accounted troublesome. In short, it was not this fear that kept you away.
Sos. I acknowledge that I have no inclination for such things.
Cli. Oh indeed! Yet, although we may not care to see things, we like to go where we find everybody else;. . . Read More
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If you want classic masque fun but in French, Molière’s the one for you: it’s got astrology, making fun of men who think they own the world, a romance, a wise fool, and some nice rhymes
I honestly thought this was a pretty bad molière play. Most of the plays in my collection that have come at the end are the "classics", the great plays. Not this one.
Maybe if it was performed the ballet would be powerful or interesting, but as a play there is a lot missing that it seems like would n
In its preface, the play is presented as "one of the weakest plays of Molière", but I couldn't have imagined just how weak. The Magnificent Lovers is a comedy with a sentimental plot in which two princes pay court to a princess who ends up with a low-born soldier (a general, actually) who loves her