Author: SCARRON, Paul.
Title: Oeuvres de Monsieur Scarron. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigé, & augmentée de quantité de pièces omises dans les éditions précédentes. Tome sixième, qui contient les pièces de théâtre dont la liste se trouve au revers de ce titre.
Description: Amsterdam: chez J. Wetstein, 1752. 12mo. 579p. Vol. 6 of a collected edition of Scarron's works published in 7 volumes in Amsterdam by J. Wetstein in 1752. Wanting the title-page. Mottled calf, gold-tooled spine (head of spine chipped); marbled endpapers; red-edged leaves. The eight plays contained in this volume are: Le marquis ridicule, L'écolier de Salamanque, L'héritier ridicule, Jodelet ou le maître valet, D. Japhet d'Arménie, La fausse apparence, Le prince corsaire. Two of these are Scarron's best-known comedies: Jodelet, ou le maître-valet - in early productions of which the title role of the comic valet was played by the famous comic actor Julien Lespy, known as Jodelet - and Don Japhet d'Arménie, a play in which the main character's exaggerated sense of his dignity, his grandiloquent language and the grotesque humiliations to which he is exposed, provide an element of buffoonery.

Keywords: French, drama, antiquarian


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