The School for Husbands
By Molière
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Der Schauspieler und Autor Molière wurde am 15. Januar 1622 als Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in Paris geboren und verstrb am 17. Februar 1673 ebenda. Er wurde bekannt als französischer Schauspieler, Theaterdirektor und Dramatiker.
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Molière
The School for Husbands
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Table of Contents
L'ÉCOLE DES MARIS.
INTRODUCTORY NOTICE.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
THE SCHOOL FOR HUSBANDS.
ACT I.
SCENE II.—LÉONOR, ISABELLA, LISETTE; ARISTE and SGANARELLE, conversing in an under-tone, unperceived .
SCENE III.—ARISTE, SGANARELLE, LÉONOR, LISETTE.
SCENE IV.—SGANARELLE, alone .
SCENE V.—VALÈRE, SGANARELLE, ERGASTE.
SCENE VI.—VALÈRE, ERGASTE.
ACT II.
SCENE II.—SGANARELLE, alone .
SCENE III.—VALÈRE, SGANARELLE, ERGASTE.
SCENE IV.—SGANARELLE, alone .
SCENE V.—ISABELLA, SGANARELLE.
SCENE VI.—SGANARELLE, alone .
SCENE VII.—SGANARELLE, ERGASTE.
SCENE VIII.—VALÈRE, ERGASTE.
SCENE IX.-SGANARELLE, VALÈRE, ERGASTE.
SCENE X.—SGANARELLE, alone .
SCENE XI.—SGANARELLE, ISABELLA.
SCENE XII.—SGANARELLE, alone .
SCENE XIII.—VALÈRE, SGANARELLE, ERGASTE.
SCENE XIV.—ISABELLA, SGANARELLE, VALÈRE, ERGASTE.
SCENE XV—ISABELLA, SGANARELLE.
ACT III.
SCENE II.—SGANARELLE, ISABELLA.
SCENE III.—VALÈRE, ISABELLA, SGANARELLE.
SCENE IV.—SGANARELLE, alone .
SCENE V.—SGANARELLE, A MAGISTRATE, A NOTARY, ATTENDANT with a. lantern .
SCENE VI.—ARISTE, SGANARELLE.
SCENE VII.—SGANARELLE, ARISTE, A MAGISTRATE, A NOTARY.
SCENE VIII.—VALÈRE, A MAGISTRATE, A NOTARY, SGANARELLE, ARISTE.
SCENE IX.—LÉONOR, SGANARELLE, ARISTE, LISETTE.
SCENE X.—ISABELLA, VALÈRE, LÉONOR, ARISTE, SGANARELLE, MAGISTRATE,. NOTARY, LISETTE, ERGASTE.
L'ÉCOLE DES MARIS.
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COMÉDIE.
* * * * *
THE SCHOOL FOR HUSBANDS.
A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS.
(THE ORIGINAL IN VERSE.)
INTRODUCTORY NOTICE.
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The School for Husbands was the first play in the title of which the word School
was employed, to imply that, over and above the intention of amusing, the author designed to convey a special lesson to his hearers. Perhaps Molière wished not only that the general public should be prepared to find instructions and warnings for married men, but also that they who were wont to regard the theatre as injurious, or at best trivial, should know that he professed to educate, as well as to entertain. We must count the adoption of similar titles by Sheridan and others amongst the tributes, by imitation, to Molière's genius.
This comedy was played for the first time at Paris, on the 24th of June, 1661, and met with great success. On the 12th of July following it was acted at Vaux, the country seat of Fouquet, before the whole court, Monsieur, the brother of the King, and the Queen of England; and by them also was much approved. Some commentators say that Molière was partly inspired by a comedy of Lope de Vega. La Discreta enamorada, The Cunning Sweetheart; also by a remodelling of the same play by Moreto, No puede ser guardar una muger, One cannot guard a woman; but this has lately been disproved. It appears, however, that he borrowed the primary idea of his comedy from the Adelphi of Terence; and from a tale, the third of the third day, in the Decameron of Boccaccio, where a young woman uses her father-confessor as a go-between for herself and her lover. In the Adelphi there are two old men of dissimilar character, who give a different education to the children they bring up. One of them is a dotard, who, after having for sixty years been sullen, grumpy and avaricious, becomes suddenly lively, polite, and prodigal; this Molière had too much common sense to imitate.
The School for Husbands marks a distinct departure in the dramatist's literary progress. As a critic has well observed, it substitutes for situations produced by the mechanism of plot, characters which give rise to situations in accordance with the ordinary operations of human nature. Molière's method—the simple and only true one, and, consequently, the one which incontestably establishes the original talent of its employer—is this: At the beginning of a play, he introduces his principal personages: sets them talking; suffers them to betray their characters, as men and women do in every-day life,—expecting from his hearers that same discernment which he has himself displayed in detecting their peculiarities: imports the germ of a plot in some slight misunderstanding or equivocal act; and leaves all the rest to be effected by the action and reaction of the characters which he began by bringing out in bold relief. His plots are thus the plots of nature; and it is impossible that they should not be both interesting and instructive. That his comedies, thus composed, are besides amusing,