Le Menteur
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Le Menteur ("The Liar"), a farcical play by Pierre Corneille.
A farcical play first performed in 1644, based on La Verdad Sospechosa by the Spanish-American playwright Juan Ruíz de Alarcón, and published in French in 1634. It was the source of Samuel Foote's farce, The Liar.
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
http://www.nndb.com/people/431/000105116/
http://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_Liar.html?id=oH4-AAAAYAAJ&redir_esc=y
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928[1]: pp. 295-6
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