Le cocu magnifique : farce en trois actes /
"Bruno, the village scribe, is married to a beautiful and devoted young woman named Stella. He makes a good living composing love letters for the uneducated villagers, many of which are addressed to his wife. Bruno's eloquence can lift him off into rhapsodies of brilliant exaggeration. As...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | French |
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[Paris?] :
[publisher not identified],
[1930?]
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| Series: | Cahiers de "Bravo" ; Supplément au numéro de mars 1930.
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| Summary: | "Bruno, the village scribe, is married to a beautiful and devoted young woman named Stella. He makes a good living composing love letters for the uneducated villagers, many of which are addressed to his wife. Bruno's eloquence can lift him off into rhapsodies of brilliant exaggeration. As a character verging on the manic, his paranoia is easily excited. He convinces himself that his fear of being cuckolded can be appeased only by the certainty of knowing he is a cuckold. Therefore, he offers his wife first to his best friend and then, when that fails to appease him, to all the young men of the village. This demented decision disrupts village life: the town turns violently against him, and the women of the village threaten Stella with torture, degradation and expulsion."--Wikipedia |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy contains a mailing envelope and is part of the D. Eugenio Asensio Collection. |
| Physical Description: | 45 pages ; 26 cm. |
| Access: | Item no. 528 in Two centuries of French drama, 1760-1960, a collection of 2,014 French dramas housed in the Department of Special Collections, University of Florida Libraries. |