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The most famous of the hilarious, heartbreakingcomedies with which Marivaux shocked and delighted eighteenth-century Paris. A wickedly funny translation, as performed at the Royal National Theatre.

The best known play by one of the most performed French playwrights

Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de MARIVAUX (1688-1763), journaliste, dramaturge et romancier fran ais. N dans une famille de magistrats normands, il perd son h ritage et d cide de vivre de sa plume. Apr s avoir fait la connaissance de Fontenelle, qui l'introduit chez Madame Lambert,... Read Full Overview

Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de MARIVAUX (1688-1763), journaliste, dramaturge et romancier fran ais. N dans une famille de magistrats normands, il perd son h ritage et d cide de vivre de sa plume. Apr s avoir fait la connaissance de Fontenelle, qui l'introduit chez Madame Lambert,... Read Full Overview

How does Wall Street, that great bastion of American Capitalism, really work? This book provides the multifaceted answer to that question clearly, concisely, and on a practical level for anyone seeking to better understand the inner workings of the capital markets. Tracing... Read Full Overview

Sylvia is distraught. What is she to do about a husband? She is doubtful about marriage; the marriages she can observe are not happy. The men do not show their true faces; they hide behind masks, and the masks they show to the world are deeply fraudulent: the civil, polite, polished... Read Full Overview

Le p re de Sylvia (M. Orgon) souhaite que sa fille pouse le fils d'un de ses vieux amis. Mais Silvia, peu dispos e se marier, obtient de son brave homme de p re l'autorisation d'observer, sous le d guisement de sa servante (Lisette), le jeune homme qui sa famille la destine... Read Full Overview

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This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization... Read Full Overview

Marivaux is among the most perfomed of all French playwrights, and "Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard" is his best known play. The play combines the linguistic refinement of the eighteenth-century salons, the intellectual challenge of the dawning Enlightenment, and the imaginative... Read Full Overview