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Are you really surprised to discover that a woman might have a mind
of her own? When Lelio thinks he can ditch and cash in on the rich
woman he has promised to marry, in order to become the husband of
an even wealthier 'girl from Paris', he enlists the help of his
attractive new friend, the Chevalier. What he doesn't know is that
the Chevalier is none other than this same 'girl from Paris'
disguised as a man, and that her project is to publicly expose the
depths of his sexual cynicism. A self-declared 'modern', Marivaux
is a pioneer in the exploration of human feeling, asking in this
play not only what do we hide from others? - but what are we hiding
from ourselves? Martin Crimp's version of Pierre Marivaux's The
False Servant received its premiere at the National Theatre,
London, in 2004 and was revived at the Orange Tree Theatre, London,
in June 2022. 'Marivaux's scepticism, irony and fascination with
money and sex make him seem peculiarly modern.' Guardian 'Thrills,
chills, and belly laughs - this addictively adult comedy has got
the lot.' Daily Telegraph
Marivaux's light-hearted comedies of love and intrigue are enjoying
a vigorous revival One of the most original of French eighteenth
century dramatists, Marivaux wrote over thirty comedies of love and
intrigue. This, the only major single-volume selection of
Marivaux's plays in English, brings together five full-length and
five shorter pieces in lively translations by John Bowen, Michael
Sadler, John Walters, Donald Watson and Nicholas Wright.
Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price The
best known play by one of the most performed French playwrights - a
sparkling 18th-century comedy of manners based on the simplest of
plot devices, the exchanging places of master and valet, mistress
and maidservant. This edition of Pierre Marivaux's play The Game of
Love and Chance, in an English translation by Stephen Mulrine, is
in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series. It includes an
introduction by Stephen Mulrine.
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++++ Oeuvres De Theat?re De M. De Marivaux ...: Tome Troisieme
Pierre Marivaux Duchesne ((Paris)) chez Duchesne, 1758
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