#4
The School for Husbands, Moliere
I think I'm about four hundred years too late to find this funny.
It's a short little play - so short, in fact, it's more of a skit - about two men who take over the guardianship of a pair of sisters when their parents die. One dude is really nice to his charge and the other is not. The play revolves around the fact that the girls' parents wanted them to marry these men, but only the nice dude succeeds in winning his fair one's heart. I suppose I should at least be thankful that this was the message Moliere chose to perpetrate even though it was 1600-somethingsomething. Unfortunately for the reader's alleigance, Sganarelle - that's the mean dude - is the only funny character.
He describes the fashions of the day:
those sleeves which one sees at table trying all the sauces
Lol. Sigh.
Previously, on Book Glomp 2010:
The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories, Anton Chekhov
I'll take you there, Joyce Carol Oates
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides ♥
I think I'm about four hundred years too late to find this funny.
It's a short little play - so short, in fact, it's more of a skit - about two men who take over the guardianship of a pair of sisters when their parents die. One dude is really nice to his charge and the other is not. The play revolves around the fact that the girls' parents wanted them to marry these men, but only the nice dude succeeds in winning his fair one's heart. I suppose I should at least be thankful that this was the message Moliere chose to perpetrate even though it was 1600-somethingsomething. Unfortunately for the reader's alleigance, Sganarelle - that's the mean dude - is the only funny character.
He describes the fashions of the day:
those sleeves which one sees at table trying all the sauces
Lol. Sigh.
Previously, on Book Glomp 2010:
The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories, Anton Chekhov
I'll take you there, Joyce Carol Oates
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides ♥