The School for Wives (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
- First Published: 1663
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Comedy of manners
- Time of Work: Seventeenth century
- Setting: France
- Principal Characters: Arnolphe, Agnès, Horace, Chrysalde, Enrique, Oronte
- Genres: Satire, Drama, Comedy, Comedy of manners
- Subjects: Husbands, Wives, France or French people, Love or romance, Marriage, Seventeenth century, Adultery
- Locales: Paris, France
The Story:
As Arnolphe told his friend Chrysalde, if a man were not to be made to look like a fool by his wife, he must choose a wife who is ignorant of the ways of the world and in no danger of being admired by other men. Arnolphe, famous for his bitter ridicule of other men who were put to shame by the unfaithfulness of their wives, was determined that he would not find himself in a like position. For that reason, he proposed to marry Agnès, his young ward, whom he had protected from society. He thought her such an ignorant girl and such a fool that she would make a perfect...
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