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Le jeu de l'amour et du hasard
Pour juger de la qualité du fiancé qu'on voudrait lui imposer, Silvia prend la place de Lisette, sa servante. Mais Dorante, le fiancé, a eu la même idée de son côté... Le dispositif ainsi truqué, la partie commence : jeu de l'amour, mais surtout jeux de l'esprit, marivaudage grâce auquel la vérité va triompher de l'apparence et l'amour de la raison. Assis dans son rôle de...more
Paperback, 145 pages
Published
1970
by Larousse
(first published 1730)
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Excellent! Une merveilleuse pièce de théâtre!
Tellement bien écrite et bien pensée! J'ai aimé tous les personnages, surtout Dorante.
L'histoire se déroule en France, à Paris dans la maison d'une famille aisée. Silvia, fille de M.Orgon, est promise à Dorante, qui se trouve à être le fils de l'un de ses amis. Silvia, n'ayant jamais vu Dorante et étant réticente quant à épouser n'importe qui, propose un stratagème qui promet être divertissant. Afin de pouvoir observer Dorante à son aise lorsqu'il arr...more
Tellement bien écrite et bien pensée! J'ai aimé tous les personnages, surtout Dorante.
L'histoire se déroule en France, à Paris dans la maison d'une famille aisée. Silvia, fille de M.Orgon, est promise à Dorante, qui se trouve à être le fils de l'un de ses amis. Silvia, n'ayant jamais vu Dorante et étant réticente quant à épouser n'importe qui, propose un stratagème qui promet être divertissant. Afin de pouvoir observer Dorante à son aise lorsqu'il arr...more
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This is not one but two plays within a play, more or less following the three rules of theatre that dominated the writing of French plays at that time. (The one rule that isn’t fully respected is ‘action’ as the piece could have ended had Silvia not played out her second, not entirely necessary, play.) However, I liked this added extra to the play and considering how it did add to both Silvia’s and Dorante’s characters in the end.
I found it funny how neither class,...more
This is not one but two plays within a play, more or less following the three rules of theatre that dominated the writing of French plays at that time. (The one rule that isn’t fully respected is ‘action’ as the piece could have ended had Silvia not played out her second, not entirely necessary, play.) However, I liked this added extra to the play and considering how it did add to both Silvia’s and Dorante’s characters in the end.
I found it funny how neither class,...more
One of the best books I have read in a long time. Marivaux successfully explores the theme of class divide in the 18th century. Reading this in the original French is much better than English as you can really see the way in which he conveys the difference between servant and master in the way language is used. I won't spoil the ending, but I shall leave you to decide whether this shows that the class divide really has been bridged.
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i really loved this! Silvia's hard-to-get attitude pissed me off a couple of times but other than that, i found it very funny !
Pièce distrayante et agréable, souvent drôle, parfois légèrement émouvante... bien qu'un peu convenue.
I usually hate reading theater but I really enjoyed this!
Le chef-d'oeuvre, mondialement connu de Marivaux.
Une comédie légère et facile à lire. Distrayante.
Apr 12, 2008
Doris
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Recommends it for:
fans of classical comedies
Recommended to Doris by:
my professor at university
Well - what to write about a classical comedy? Masters and servants decide to change their social roles to find out whether the respectively other side would be interested in them if they where from that other class... It's about social prejudice, about timidity and of course about love!
I love fluffy plays like this. People need to do modern transpositions of these things.....
Read for French lit. class. A lot of fun!
Une comédie distrayante.
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Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (February 4, 1688 – February 12, 1763), commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French novelist and dramatist.
He is considered one of the most important French playwrights of the 18th century, writing numerous comedies for the Comédie-Française and the Comédie-Italienne of Paris. His most important works are "Le Triomphe de l'amour", "Le Jeu de l'amour et "du...more
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He is considered one of the most important French playwrights of the 18th century, writing numerous comedies for the Comédie-Française and the Comédie-Italienne of Paris. His most important works are "Le Triomphe de l'amour", "Le Jeu de l'amour et "du...more
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