Satisfaction All Around (Les Contens)

by Odet de Turnèbe, Donald Beecher (Translator)

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132 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1981

About the author

Odet de Turnèbe est un dramaturge français. Il fut avocat au Parlement de Paris et il fut le premier président de la Cour des monnaies.

Odet de Turnèbe was a French dramatist. He was a lawyer in the Parliament of Paris and was the first president of the French Court of Mint.

Reviews

[Aaron Thomas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Odete de Turnèbe's play is an excellent French comedy in the Terentian style. It is clearly based on the commedia erudita of the Italian masters such as Machiavelli, Il Bibbiena, and Pietro Aretino, but Turnèbe makes the comedy his own and creates hilarious scenarios that transpose this Renaissance comedic style into the world of the urban Paris. An utter delight and a great teaching play that shows very clearly the kinds of comedy that existed in the French capital before the debut of that seventeenth-century master of character-driven French comedy, Molière.