Northwest Missouri State University. Let’s avoid the cares that regret may bring. HENRIETTE: But you wouldn’t be your vaunted self, my sister, He spent the first half of his career as head of a provincial troupe, managing, directing, and performing as the leading actor in tragedies and comedies, and (most successfully) in improvised farces, in which he was the chief clown. I liked it a great deal more than Les Precieuses Ridicules, mostly because it presented a more nuanced look at the state of women at the time. Are from burning with these earthly fires! For whom you swear so much loving fidelity…. I see him strutting around like a general ARMANDE: What?! (Indicating Henriette) I found them, madame, in these eyes, I know that he’s so much less worthy than you, ARMANDE: And twenty times I read him new poems, Butting in when I am engaging in discourse; TRIPPELDOLT: Don’t blame me, please, for getting so worked up. PHILAMINTE: He truly revealed his mercenary soul! Impossible to hear That, crossing paths with a man at a bookstore one day, Knowledge can produce humongous dolts. Shouldn’t have given you leave to act offended. This is foolish blather that nobody should have to hear. Honored everywhere for erudition. ARMANDE: He had me at “vigilance is sleeping.”. All by way of loving sacrifice. TRIPPELDOLT: I don’t see any prominent examples. And if the eyes I see could pick it up off the floor We call the center of gravity? This book is not yet featured on Listopia. And you really should address yourself to the help, Of becoming the rival of Trippeldolt. I’ll tell her our secret right now, Slap me around til I lowered by voice. CHRYSALE: We were both 28 back then, My love for poetry is all-consuming. When he wrote up his Republic; The Learned Ladies. I see that I’m wrong, but I simply can’t help it, CHRYSALE: I knew his late father when I was in Rome. like i said though, that could just be a consequence of history. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. MARTINE: Horsepucky! I’ll be the first to speak to your daughter. With the sorrow I must bring into this place. ARISTE: And how did it turn out? I’d be so furious for such a little thing? ARMANDE: But the offensive sharpness of each reply PHILAMINTE: Its paternity suffices to endear it to me. I cannot refuse the support of a mother It’s not really right, and for many reasons, Is the body, this shabby cloak, so important, Let’s go, out! ARISTE: Snide comments at your expense is all that I get from Dorante. To give him the honor of meeting you. I see him coming, so on this question TRIPPELDOLT: I insist the poem’s unsurpassable, Creator of gallant poetry; And I dare beseech you now, Madame, But some of your own conduct gets on my nerves. And would only be a professor in how to please a wife. TRIPPELDOLT: He’s deeply versed in the classics, madam, Madame, I ally myself with your future; There goes the wife, brother, and I can tell And get married? Afterwards, a secret you need to be in on. Henriette wants to marry Clitandre, who doesn't meet Philaminte's (the mom) expectations. That’s it! To have pensions come flowing into their accounts; But, to offer me their hearts and pledge their devotion To engage elsewhere a heart that belongs to me. CHRYSALE: Yeah, you’re carrying on here like some sort of queen. Your dazzling features, eyes piercing yet sweet, To adore all your perfections. This is a French play. ARISTE: What a joke! Has nothing to do with merit. Costume Design by Stephanie M. Jorandby. Then where is the bride? This is a French play. In the 17th women had very little opportunity to choose the man to marry, often all marriages were arranged, and women were considered merchandise to be placed somewhere for the benefit of the family releasing the young woman. TRIPPELDOLT: It’s a colleague of mine who has often urged me Ah! Monsieur knows Greek! The brains to be master in my own house? And I see before me all my young loves. TRIPPELDOLT: Foolishness in the one manifests its purest state. That’s really good, hallucinations! To prevent, will actually hasten the event. TRIPPELDOLT: If that should offend you, BÉLISE: Ah! CLITANDRE: Reading the verses he dumps on us, And to beam from your eyes such celestial appeals…, HENRIETTE: Hey! The ragout of a sonnet that, in the view of a princess, After thirty lessons, insulted my ear ARISTE: But since you know so many things, sister, Has no power at all to counteract her venom. PHILAMINTE: It seems to me, monsieur, that…. We’ll pronounce their death sentences, One has a certain air, I believe, that clearly says TRIPPELDOLT: Intellectual matters will not bite you, And I think very few could match his merit. TRIPPELDOLT: All right! Don't judge the book by how old it is or how over read it is. CHRYSALE: Beg pardon. VADIUS: Yes, I heard it read at a party yesterday. VADIUS: That may be, but still it’s miserable, To penetrate you with the love of learning You speak to her in such a friendly way. And wit is in the eye of the beholder. I've just finished reading this and it was pretty enjoyable! I wanted to be your husband, Be content that I’m willing to endure your homage HENRIETTE: Not at all: I wasn’t listening. That I wanted to try to serve your loves, That your love wisely prompted you to devise, And whether I can drag her back to her duty. TRIPPELDOLT (to Henriette): I don’t know what to say, I’m so enraptured, and re the misogyny, uhh idk, i guess that the male characters are explicitly portrayed as pathetic, boring and cowardly, yet graced with that bourgeois "good sense" in a way that balances the gender lampooning. But I’m not the sort of man to take the insults And I’ve come to you to solicit your good will It’s done. CLITANDRE: And be sure that I’ll never forget it. My God, in all this there’s nothing he takes offense at; “my Diana!” Now that’s erudition for you. The man, no nevermind what, bein’ on top. PHILAMINTE: Our sex is grateful to you on this score; But since you’ve authorized me, I’ll go to your father, And as for me, I think he’s just a crackpot. With people, and how embarrassing it is I think this is the first time I've actually enjoyed reading a dispute about the importance of grammer. I am currently directing "The Learned Ladies" which is a very good comedy by Moliere. ARMANDE: You talk to me about it, but what do you do? And we’ll purge them for good from all poetry and prose. Let us sit here to listen at our leisure Richard Wilbur's flawless translation of this hilarious play is friggin perfection. And this massing of forces today leads me Seems to have some distaste for marriage. i guess thats where my problem was though -- the lampooning of the female cha. EMBED. Caprice is a part of it, and when someone pleases us In handsome coffee-table editions That I wanted to speak with you, monsieur, one on one. THE STORY: Clitandre seeks the hand of Henriette, a match heartily approved of by her father, Chrysale. PHILAMINTE: Do you think I’d fire her without just cause? Forward, follow me, brother, and you too, son-in-law. And nobody’s ever surpassed it for beauty. That you’d deny was yours if you’d written it yourself. All I’ve done is accept, upon your spirit’s rejection, It does you honor to deny his wishes, Ahem! It would be very bad form to repay her this way, To be so degraded by material cares CLITANDRE: Another second? Than those purified vows that hitch up two minds, A foe of the worst order. PHILAMINTE: Don’t frustrate such urgent desires. MARTINE: Book-men are only good for preaching from a pulpit; How well put “goes downhill” is, VADIUS: I’m sure I don’t deserve the warmth that greets me. To show some courage. Your reward is receiving your amorous wish. He’s been tooting your horn with his poetry, An ingenious veil, a pretext, brother, HENRIETTE: The consequences of that word, to my mind, The word stinks highly of antiquity. ARMANDE: Hey! The only work being done around here is reasoning, I see in the world people fit in my pattern, They lorded over my soul as haughty tyrants; That’s right for fashioning philosophers. The sweet caresses! Don’t say that it’s vermillion, TRIPPELDOLT: Now there you’re wrong, I’m quite sure, and I know And, to ensure that no-one opposes his suit, And my wife’s bad side is terrifying. When he’s done you try to figure out what he’s said; Wednesday, March 13, 2019 – Sunday, March 17, 2019 8 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. So my body and soul are always walking hand in hand. ARMANDE: As for language, pretty soon we’ll reveal our new rules, ARMANDE: At every step in the poem you find a charming touch. The subterfuge, I admit, is quite clever, While I agree with some of the things that Moliere argues, most of it is still rather sexist. To win a heart via any means but appealing to itself. TRIPPELDOLT: I’m so sorry I was unable to please you. You don’t know how much arguing depresses me. not that funny. Beauty of the mind is firm and permanent. (He kisses each one of them, but Henriette refuses.). As for me, I see nothing more doltish Outside these walls he’s valued at his true worth. TRIPPELDOLT: Anything as charming as your rondeaux? ARISTE: Yes, but…to leverage your consent, brother What his pedantic pose broadcasts to the world: That his sonnet is totally worthless. He just gives me a few light whacks in passing; ( Log Out / I read it in Italian and saw it in the theatre with actors on stage. TRIPPELDOLT: Many people find it worthy through and through. A condition that is her boarder, it is not set on clitandre feel totally secure with the of... 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