The Jealousy of le Barbouillé (La Jalousie du Barbouillé)
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Title: The Jealousy of le Barbouillé
(La Jalousie du Barbouillé)
Author: Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Molière
Translator: Charles Heron Wall
Release Date: October 28, 2008 [EBook #27074]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE JEALOUSY OF LE BARBOUILLÉ ***
Produced by Delphine Lettau
THE JEALOUSY OF LE BARBOUILLÉ.
(LA JALOUSIE DU BARBOUILLÉ.)
BY
MOLIÈRE
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH PROSE.
WITH SHORT INTRODUCTIONS AND EXPLANATORY NOTES
BY
CHARLES HERON WALL
Among the small farces said to have been sketched by Molière during his stay in the provinces, two only which seem genuine have come down to us, and have been published for the last thirty years with his comedies. These are, 'La Jalousie du Barbouillé,' and 'Le Médecin Volant.' Molière has made use of the former in the third act of the comedy called 'George Dandin.'
Molière acted the part of Le Barbouillé.
PERSONS REPRESENTED.
Le Barbouillé, husband to Angélique.
The Doctor.
Angélique.
Valère, lover to Angélique.
Cathau, maid to Angélique.
Gorgibus, father to Angélique.
Villebrequin.
La Vallée.
THE JEALOUSY OF LE BARBOUILLÉ.
SCENE I.——LE BARBOUILLÉ.
Bar. Everybody must acknowledge that I am the most unfortunate of men! I have a wife who plagues me to death; and who, instead of bringing me comfort and doing things as I like them to be done, makes me swear at her twenty times a day. Instead of keeping at home, she likes gadding about, eating good dinners, and passing her time with people of I don't know what description. Ah! poor Barbouillé, how much you are to be pitied! But she must be punished. Suppose you killed her?… It would do no good, for you would be hung afterwards. If you were to have her sent to prison?… The minx would