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...with the greatest of ease," and the latter being one who questions the efficacy of infant baptism). Those who say to this, "I couldn't care less," utter not only an AMPHIBRACH but a CLICHÉ, although they might be astonished to hear it, much as Molière's bourgeois gentil-homme was astounded to discover that all his life he had been speaking PROSE...
...gentle goodbye to life. He regretted neither his homosexuality nor his lack of religious faith; indeed he took delight in flaunting both to the end. He reflected on everything from old age (it puzzled him) to shaggy-dog stories (they made him laugh) to Moliére and Cervantes (they did not make him laugh...
From Terence, Wycherley took a hint for his chief character, a London rake named Horner, who, to make lust easier, spreads the report that he is impotent. At once husbands contemptuously allow him access to their wives, and soon the secretly gloating Horner has a harem. From Molière's L'Ecole des Femmes, Wycherley took his ingenuous young country wife, who is not quite carefully enough guarded by a jealous husband, and who proves as eager a pupil as Horner is a teacher...
Four years ago a famous Parisian troupe, headed by a famous acting couple-Madeleine Renaud and Jean-Louis Barrault-paid their first visit to Broadway. Offering chefs d'oeuvres variés-Shakespeare, Marivaux, Molière-as well as novelties and knickknacks, they particularly scored with their lighter, wittier, most Gallic productions, revealed Director-Actor-Pantomimist Barrault as one of the theater's most agile minds and bodies. Last week, again brought over by Impresario Sol Hurok, the Barrault troupe again promised a menu of both classics (Molière, Lope de Vega, Ben Jonson) and moderns...
...with these hits are the works of other theater giants. A group of young players called the Shakespear-wrights, now in their third season, are staging a sprightly version of Twelfth Night. Two other 17th century comedies are playing to packed houses: Ben Jonson's bawdy Volpone and Molière's sophisticated The Misanthrope. Other hits: Sean O'Casey's rollicking comedy, Purple Dust, scheduled "indefinitely" at the Cherry Lane, a converted stable; Shoestring '57, a 30-skit musical review; and Me, Candido, an original drama by Walt Anderson about the flight of Puerto...