La Double Inconstance: Marivaux and the Comedy of Manipulation
1977; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 10; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2737904
ISSN1086-315X
Autores Tópico(s)Historical and Literary Analyses
ResumoLa Double Inconstance est une piece terrible, says the Count in Anouilh's La Repetition. C'est proprement l'histoire elegante et gracieuse d'un crime.' This is hyperbole; La Double Inconstance is a real comedy, both in formal structure and in its capacity to make us laugh. The central event, if it is a crime, is certainly not simply a crime. The Count does sum up a whole current of reaction to this play, which Marcel Arland calls rhistoire d'une exaction, and even the critics who disagree with this point of view go to considerable lengths to prove that the play is not an unpleasant one.2 It is at the very least a tantalizing and disturbing play, in ways that even the plot summary can suggest. The Prince of an unnamed principality has fallen in love with a village maiden, Silvia; he has had his
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