The School for Learned Husbands

by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (Moliere)

Dramatis Personae

SGANARELLE, [Footnote: This part was played by Molière himself.
  In the inventory taken after Molière's death, and given by M. Soulié,
  we find: "A dress for The School for Husbands, consisting of
  breeches, doublet, cloak, collar, purse and girdle, all of a kind of
  brown coloured (couleur de muse) satin."]
          }
          } brothers.
  ARISTE, )
VALÈRE, lover to Isabella.

ERGASTE, servant to Valère.

A MAGISTRATE.

[Footnote: The original has un Commissaire, who in Molière's time, appears to have been a kind of inferior magistrate under the authority of the Lieutenant-général de la Police. The Commissaires de Police were not established till 1699; and The School for Husbands was played for the first time in 1661.]

A NOTARY.

  ISABELLA, )
            ) sisters.
  LÉONOR, }
LISETTE, maid to Isabella.

Scene.—A PUBLIC PLACE IN PARIS.