Le sicilien ou l'amour peintre à 1,50 euros

by Molière, Marie-Dominique Boutilié (Preface)

Cette charmante comédie en un acte se déroule à Messine, lors d'une nuit noire. Un sicilien jaloux veut épouser la jeune esclave grecque qu'il a affranchie, mais l'amour rôde déjà autour d'elle. Un beau gentilhomme français rêve de l'enlever et, grâce à la complicité de l'ingénieux Hali, son valet, il entre dans la place. Quels stratagèmes utiliser pour ravir la belle, tout à fait consentante ?Toute l'action s'accompagne de chants et de danses qui entraînent le spectateur dans un tourbillon de couleurs et de musique. Une ode à la liberté et à l'amour dans une comédie-ballet fantaisiste et exotique qui invite à retrouver tout le " glamour " de la comédie hollywoodienne.

Genres: Plays, France, Classics, 17th Century, French Literature, Romance

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1667

About the author

Sophisticated comedies of French playwright Molière, pen name of Jean Baptiste Poquelin, include Tartuffe (1664), The Misanthrope (1666), and The Bourgeois Gentleman (1670).

French literary figures, including Molière and Jean de la Fontaine, gathered at Auteuil, a favorite place.

People know and consider Molière, stage of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also an actor of the greatest masters in western literature. People best know l'Ecole des femmes (The School for Wives), l'Avare ou l'École du mensonge (The Miser), and le Malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid) among dramas of Molière.

From a prosperous family, Molière studied at the Jesuit Clermont college (now lycée Louis-le-Grand) and well suited to begin a life in the theater. While 13 years as an itinerant actor helped to polish his abilities, he also began to combine the more refined elements with ccommedia dell'arte.

Through the patronage of the brother of Louis XIV and a few aristocrats, Molière procured a command performance before the king at the Louvre. Molière performed a classic of [authore:Pierre Corneille] and le Docteur amoureux (The Doctor in Love), a farce of his own; people granted him the use of Salle du Petit-Bourbon, a spacious room, appointed for theater at the Louvre. Later, people granted the use of the Palais-Royal to Molière. In both locations, he found success among the Parisians with les Précieuses ridicules (The Affected Ladies), l'École des maris</i> (<i>The School for Husbands</i>), and <i>[book:l'École des femmes (The School for Wives). This royal favor brought a pension and the title "Troupe du Roi" (the troupe of the king). Molière continued as the official author of court entertainments.

Molière received the adulation of the court and Parisians, but from moralists and the Church, his satires attracted criticisms. From the Church, his attack on religious hypocrisy roundly received condemnations, while people banned performance of Don Juan . From the stage, hard work of Molière in so many theatrical capacities began to take its toll on his health and forced him to take a break before 1667.

From pulmonary tuberculosis, Molière suffered. In 1673 during his final production of le Malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid), a coughing fit and a haemorrhage seized him as Argan, the hypochondriac. He finished the performance but collapsed again quickly and died a few hours later. In time in Paris, Molière completely reformed.

Reviews

[Alodis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Une pièce en un acte qui se lit d'une traite et où l'on retrouve un condensé du savoir-faire de Molière autour de jeunes amoureux et d'un barbon jaloux. Un thème universel traité de façon "orientale", en Sicile où les stratagèmes se multiplient rapidement, surprennent à la fin, pour que les jeunes gens arrivent à leur fin.
Petit plaisir personnel et ouvrage bien sûr adéquat pour les 6è !

[Shannon · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a fun , short read and had a few really clever moments and memorable scenes.

Some of the humour is now outdated (and potentially offensive), but it has been a minute since it was written. Other than those moments, it was quite enjoyable.

Note: I read an English translation, but couldn't find an edition online that was an English version.

[mengwe · Rating 4 out of 5]

fun! entertaining! straight to the point!

[Boris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Courte mais succulente pièce de Molière tournant en dérisions les jaloux et possessifs de tout poil !