Persons Represented

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_ Title: The Impostures of Scapin (Les Fourberies de Scapin)

Author: Moliere (Poquelin)

Translated into English prose.
With short Introduction and Explanatory Notes
By Charles Heron Wall

Acted on May 24, 1671, at the Palais Royal, 'Les Fourberies de Scapin' had great success. It is nothing, however, but a farce, taken partly from classical, partly from Italian or from French sources.

Moliere acted the part of Scapin.

 

PERSONS REPRESENTED

ARGANTE, _father to_ OCTAVE _and_ ZERBINETTE.

GERONTE, _father to_ LEANDRE _and_ HYACINTHA.

OCTAVE, _son to_ ARGANTE, _and lover to_ HYACINTHA.

LEANDRE, _son to_ GERONTE, _and lover_ to ZERBINETTE.

ZERBINETTE, _daughter to_ ARGANTE, _believed to be a gypsy girl_.

HYACINTHA, _daughter to_ GERONTE.

SCAPIN, _servant to_ LEANDRE.

SILVESTRE, _servant to_ OCTAVE.

NERINE, _nurse to_ HYACINTHA.

CARLE.

TWO PORTERS.

_The scene is at_ NAPLES. _

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