Dramatis Personæ
SGANARELLE,1
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} brothers.
ARISTE, )
Valère, lover to Isabella.
ERGASTE, servant to Valère.2
A MAGISTRATE.
A NOTARY.
ISABELLA, )
) sisters.
LÉONOR, }
LISETTE, maid to Isabella.
Scene.—A PUBLIC PLACE IN PARIS.
Notes
1 This part was played by Molière himself.
In the inventory taken after Molière’s death, and given by M. Soulié,
we find: “A dress for The School for Husbands, consisting of
breeches, doublet, cloak, collar, purse and girdle, all of a kind of
brown coloured (couleur de muse) satin.”
2 The original has un Commissaire, who in Molière’s time, appears to have been a kind of inferior magistrate under the authority of the Lieutenant-général de la Police. The Commissaires de Police were not established till 1699; and The School for Husbands was played for the first time in 1661.