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School for Wives (L'École des Femmes) by Molière was written in five acts; Suzanne consolidates the play into three.
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- The following is quoted from Suzanne’s 1932 program guides. “Time” based on the initial presentation date of the play, December 26, 1662.
Characters in the play
(in order of speaking)
Chrysalde, Arnolphe’s friend,
Arnolphe, (known to Agnès as Monsieur de la Souche.)
Horace, son of Oronte, in love with Agnès.
Oronte, father of Horace and friend of Arnolphe.
Place—A Paris street in front of Arnolphe’s house.
Time—About three hundred years ago.
Synopsis of the play. Arnolphe, a conceited, selfish man of middle age, has had his young ward, Agnès, trained in a convent to become a model wife for himself, simple, pliable and unspoiled. He has kept her mind entirely undeveloped, and her imagination free from all knowledge of good and evil.
He has recently taken Agnès from the convent and kept her cloistered in a house near his own, in Paris, awaiting the day of their marriage. Business, meanwhile has taken Arnolphe from town for ten days, and in his absence Agnès has met and fallen in love with Horace, son of Arnolphe’s old friend Oronte.
Arnolphe is attempting to change his own name to the more aristocratic one of ‘de la Souche,’ the only name by which Agnès and the servants know him. Horace, on the other hand, knows him only as ‘Arnolphe,’ his father’s friend.
This masterpiece of Molière is a play of youth and love, written and produced in France nearly three hundred years ago. It pleads the cause of youth and ridicules the pretensions of those who would use their authority to mold the lives of others.
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Book Specifications:
Size: 8 1/2 X 11
No of pages: 57
Cover: Heavy duty laminate.
Binding: Spiral Binding
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