What is the first line of Don Juan and Sganarelle?
SCENE 1 Don Juan, Sganarelle DON JUAN In any case, let’s leave it; it’s a trifle, and we might have been tricked by a false light or deceived by some mist. SGANARELLE Eh! Sir, stop trying to deny what we both saw with our own eyes. Nothing could have been clearer than that sign of the head; and I don’t doubt that Heaven, scandalized by
Why was Dom Juan or the Festin de Pierre censored?
In 1682, the prose edition of Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre was censored, with paper strips glued upon the offensive text, for inclusion to an eight-volume edition of the plays of Molière.
How did the censored edition of Le Festin de Pierre change Molière's play?
The censored, verse edition Le Festin de pierre (1677) by Thomas Corneille changed the style of writing — and thus changed the intent of the play — by exaggerating Dom Juan's libertinism to render Molière's comedy of manners into a cautionary tale of the unhappy fate of irreligious people.
Why did Molière delete the Pauper scene?
The consequent state-and-church censorship legally compelled Molière to delete socially subversive scenes and irreligious dialogue from the script, specifically the scene where Sganarelle and Dom Juan encounter the Pauper in the forest, in Act III. [4]
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