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Lovers' quarrels

Lovers' quarrels
Molière Original title Le dépit amoureux (French)

THE STORY: LOVERS' QUARRELS (1656) was Molière's second full-length play in verse, and it is a complex comedy animated by deception and misunderstanding. A young woman (Ascagne) has worn masculine disguise since childhood, for the sake of an inheri


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“We die only once, and for such a long time!”

On ne meurt qu'une fois; et c'est pour si longtemps!
Le Dépit Amoureux (1656), Act V, sc. iii

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