The Magnificent Cuckold

Magnificent Cuckold, The (Le Cocu magnifique)

    Alternative Title: The Magnanimous Cuckold

    Author: Fernand Crommelynck

    First Performance: 1920, Paris

    Published: 1921

    First English Translation: 1966

    Genre: Farce in 3 acts; French prose

    Setting: Belgian village, early 20th c.

    Cast: 8m, 4f, extras

The beautiful young Stella is deeply in love with her husband Bruno, the village scribe, despite being importuned by other admirers. Bruno is fiercely jealous and strikes his cousin Pétrus, simply because he detected a glimmer of lust in his eye. Confronting Stella, Bruno is at first reassured and blames his silent secretary for inciting him to jealousy. When Stella weeps, Bruno again fears she must love another. Three months later Bruno is obsessed with Stella's...

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