One character in this play imagines a person who loses at a rhyming game by thinking “cream tart” rhymes with “corbillon” (“cor-bee-yon”). A play titled for an acting troupe’s “impromptu” performance was written in defense of this other play as part of a literary “quarrel.” A character in this play is briefly believed to be dead after two servants cudgel him off of a ladder. Lycidas claims that this play sins “against all the rules of Art” while debating Dorante and Uranie in a rebuttal to critics who considered it obscene. The identity of Enrique’s daughter is revealed at the end of this play, in which that daughter reads a set of 11 maxims forbidding activities such as picnics and using makeup. Horace is tricked by a character in this play who adopts the pseudonym Monsieur de la Souche (“soosh”). For 10 points, Arnolphe attempts to marry his ward, Agnès (“on-YES”), in what Molière (“mole-YAIR”) play that followed one named for “husbands”? ■END■
ANSWER: The School for Wives [or L’école des femmes (“lay-COAL day fahm”)]
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