Dramatis Personae

by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (Moliere)

　　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.