Plays: The Double Inconstancy / The False Servant / The Game of Love and Change / Careless Vows / The Feigned Inconstancy and five one-act pieces

by Pierre de Marivaux, Claude Schumacher (Introduction)

The Double Inconstancy / The False Servant / The Game of Love and Change / Careless Vows / The Feigned Inconstancy and five one-act pieces

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.

Genres: Plays

560 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1988

About the author

Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, 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 hasard and Les Fausses Confidences. He also published a number of essays and two important but unfinished novels, La Vie de Marianne and Le Paysan parvenu.