Play of the love and the chance

the Play of the love and the chance is a Comédie into three acts and Prose of Marivaux represented for the first time the January 23rd 1730 by the Italian Comédiens with the Hôtel of Burgundy.

While respecting the codes of propriety of the time - the noble ones will finish together, and the people of modest means on their side - Marivaux turns over, in this comedy with the étincelant dialog, the established order, disorder the prejudices and opposite the Master-servants ratios. This situation generates complications and Quiproquo S, and they are finally the women, with the servants, who leave themselves this situation best. Thus, Lisette is the first to be included/understood what occurs, then it tardily acknowledges it in Arlequin. Well after, Silvia goes to its turn counts situation, but its pride prevents it to immediately acknowledge it with Gilding. After some problems, this last, passably disconcerted, finally manages to overcome the pride of Silvia.

Characters

Mr Orgon .
Mario .
Silvia .
Gilding .
Smoothing iron , chambermaid of Silvia.
Harlequin , servant of Gilding.
a lackey .

Characters

Among the Masters, Mr Orgon, the father of Silvia, is lenient and malicious, it guides the play of the love and the chance, in perfect complicity with his Mario son. Initially opposed to the marriage, his/her Silvia daughter will be solved there with that of which it put to the test the love and sincerity, Gilding, wire of a friend of Mr. Orgon. Among the servants, Smoothing iron, the chambermaid of Silvia, enjoys to compete with its mistress by putting on her dress and by alluring Arlequin. Harlequin, servant of Gilding, has fun vexations of its Master and his own successes in love at Lisette.

History

The young countess, Silvia, girl of Mr Orgon, await an applicant, Gilding, but it is not laid out to marry, especially with the young man whom his father intends to him because it does not know it and it saw so many bad households. She would like to be able to study it without compromising herself, and for this reason she imagines to change costume and of role with Lisette, his chambermaid, in order to be able to study more with her ease the character of this applicant who passes, in addition, for a libertine. However it is that been engaged, which has itself no desire for marrying, and which the countess to only like a relative comes to see on which his fortune depends, had the same idea to also change costume and of role with his servant, Arlequin. He thus presents himself at Mr Orgon under the appearance of a servant named Bourguignon, while his servant, Arlequin, is done, as for him, to pass for Gilding. Only informed of the dressing-up of young people, Mr Orgon and his Mario son decide to leave her chances to the “play of the love and the chance”, promising itself to have fun situation.

Gilding and Harlequin arrive disguised. To start, the brother of Silvia, Mario, want that the two alleged servants address as tu themselves, which obstructs them well a little at the beginning. Under its disguise, Gilding finds Finette, which he believes being a chambermaid, charming and makes him the court by addressing a series of compliments to him of best turned. Obliged, on its side, to suffer these assiduities not to betray itself, Silvia ends by taking taste there and considering it regrettable that the runner is not a gentleman. This one, on its side, is sorry that Finette is only one chambermaid. The embarrassment of the young girl increases to see with a servant so much spirit and of distinction. She wants to be some with itself to continue the conversation with him and cannot be solved to leave it, while the alleged Master shocks it as soon as he appears.

Smoothing iron, as for it, is magic Gilding forgery and requests Mr Orgon, the father, to exempt it to continue, because it will take this love with the serious one. Indeed, as of the second interview, one said that one likes, while preventing oneself mutually that there will be to perhaps fold back some when one knows oneself better. Silvia finds that Lisette goes too far with that which it supposes the Master; Smoothing iron, on its side, makes hear in Silvia that itself goes well far with the servant. Silvia cries of anger. It does not know where it is and itself is not recognized. When the alleged servant occurs, she wants from to go away and she remains. She wants to quarrel it and she comforts it. It is thrown to its feet and she says to him that she would like it if she could it. When his/her father and his brother, who are pilot of part of this scene, tease it pitilessly, it is annoyed. When it is said to him that it is necessary to drive out this servant who is cause of all the disorder of the house, she defends it with heat then, as one makes fun of her, she also asks that it be returned. Although it knows that it cannot marry it, it cannot be however defended to like it. Learning this love by Mario, Gilding wants initially to move away by discretion. To the end, it is not due to it any more and will find distorts it Lisette and proposes to him to marry it, any chambermaid which she is. One acknowledges oneself then on both sides that the comedy was played. Harlequin and of Smoothing iron also know their own scene of the consents, extremely amusing.

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