
“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
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
“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