Difference between revisions of "Le Jeu de l’Amour et du Hasard"
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Like many of Marivaux's other comedies, The Game of Love and Chance makes use of stock characters from the Commedia dell'arte. In this play, Arlequin is featured. Lisette, who appears in other Marivaux plays, also takes on a stock personality as the feisty servant. | Like many of Marivaux's other comedies, The Game of Love and Chance makes use of stock characters from the Commedia dell'arte. In this play, Arlequin is featured. Lisette, who appears in other Marivaux plays, also takes on a stock personality as the feisty servant. | ||
| − | Translated into Afrikaans as ''Die Spel van Liefde en Toeval'', directed by [[Fred Engelen]] for [[PACT]] shortly before his death in 1967. | + | Translated into Afrikaans as ''Die Spel van Liefde en Toeval'', directed by [[Fred Engelen]] for [[PACT]] shortly before his death in 1967. Die Spel van liefde en toeval / P C de Marivaux; vert [[Johann Joubert]] |
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
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The Game of Love and Chance (French: Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard) is a three-act romantic comedy by French playwright Marivaux. The Game of Love and Chance was first performed 23 January 1730 by the Comédie Italienne. In this play, a young woman is visited by her betrothed, whom she does not know. To get a better idea of the type of person he is, she trades places with her servant and disguises herself. However, unbeknownst to her, her fiancé has the same idea and trades places with his valet. The "game" pits the two false servants against the two false masters, and in the end, the couples fall in love with their appropriate counterpart.
Like many of Marivaux's other comedies, The Game of Love and Chance makes use of stock characters from the Commedia dell'arte. In this play, Arlequin is featured. Lisette, who appears in other Marivaux plays, also takes on a stock personality as the feisty servant.
Translated into Afrikaans as Die Spel van Liefde en Toeval, directed by Fred Engelen for PACT shortly before his death in 1967. Die Spel van liefde en toeval / P C de Marivaux; vert Johann Joubert
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_of_Love_and_Chance
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, New Series 6(1), 1968.
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