The School for Husbands by Moliere - HTML preview

Dramatis Personae

SGANARELLE, [Footnote: This part was played by Molière himself. In the inventory taken after Molière's death, and given by M. Soulié, we find: "A dress for The School for Husbands, consisting of breeches, doublet, cloak, collar, purse and girdle, all of a kind of brown coloured (couleur de muse) satin."]

   } brothers.

 ARISTE, }

 VALÈRE, lover to Isabella.

 ERGASTE, servant to Valère.

 A MAGISTRATE.

[Footnote: The original has un Commissaire, who in Molière's time, appears to have been a kind of inferior magistrate under the authority of the Lieutenant-général de la Police. The Commissaires de Police were not established till 1699; and The School for Husbands was played for the first time in 1661.]

 A NOTARY.

ISABELLA, }

         } sisters.

 LÉONOR, }

 LISETTE, maid to Isabella. Scene.--A PUBLIC PLACE IN PARIS.