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The School For Wives
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In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands and then The School for Wives (this one). "The central situations of the two have much in common: the arbitrary and jealous lover to whom circumstances have given almost the authority of a husband: the simple ward rescued from physical constraint by the unfettered cunning of love." In between writing the two plays Moliere got married. Listen to both and see if this comedic genius of the farce changed his attitude.
In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands and then The School for Wives (this one). "The central situations of the two have much in common: the arbitrary and jealous lover to whom circumstances have given almost the authority of a husband: the simple ward rescued from physical constraint by the unfettered cunning of love." In between writing the two plays Moliere got married. Listen to both and see if this comedic genius of the farce changed his attitude.
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Community Reviews
I read this with my wife and we both enjoyed the humor --- which seems very contemporary, despite being written in the 18th century.
Two shorter plays of Moliere. The Learned ladies is funny!
Wilbur's translations are great -- everything you could ask for. I wish he had translated more of Moliere, because it just ain't the same without him.
I didn't like these two plays as much as "Tartuffe" and "The Misanthrope". Partly because they really are steeped in misogyny, and there's no way that
Excellent translations by poet Richard Wilbur of two of Moliere's farces in verse. The School for Wives centers on an older man who shelters his female (much younger) ward to make her ignorant of the world and eventually wed her and lead a life wherein he won't be cuckolded. His plan becomes undone
מחזה נפלא ציני ומרענן.
ארנולף, גבר מזדקן ואמיד מתכנן לשאת את אנייס, יתומה שגידל בביתו באופן מנותק מהעולם וחינך אותה להיות לו לרעיה צייתנית וממושמעת.
אבל, הגורל מתעתע בו וכשהוא מארח את הוראס, בנו של ידידו, אנייס התמימה מתאהבת בהוראס. כך מתחילה פארסה שבה ארנולף מנסה לנתק בין השניים בתחבולות שונות תוך ג
Far better than Schoool for Husbands, it has more developed villain and more forgivable villain, it is themed that experience will quickly teach the sheltered what you least want them to learn and that you can not hold people in naivete to control them. Agnes is more developed and more interesting t
I was impressed that the translator was able to do it in rhyme, staying true to the author!
This was a quick, fun read. The two plays, though predictable, are hilarious. I will bet they would be fun to see staged.
The themes carry over through the years though it would be a pretty sad young woman who
"A School For Wives" is about some old buffoon named Arnolphe whose afraid of 'sprouting the horns' as it were (cuckoldry); a theme the Late Medieval/Early Modern French could simply not shut up about. To avoid this obsessive danger Arnolphe engineers a long term plan that is, frankly, horrifying. H