Unforeseen Joy

the unforeseen Joy is a Comédie in a act and Prose of Marivaux created for the first time the July 7th 1738 by the Italian Comédiens with the Hôtel of Burgundy.

Characters

Mr. Orgon .
Mrs Dorville .
Constancy , girl of Mrs Dorville.
Damon , wire of Mr. Orgon, lover of Constancy.
the knight .
Smoothing iron , following of Constancy.
Pasquin , servant of Damon.

History

Damon lost with the play most of the money that one had entrusted to him, not to be equipped as a soldier, but to buy a load. If it did not lose more, it is that its adversary wants to play only money cash, and that the money of Damon is in a notary. He thus goes, in the hope of a revenge, to seek it, but still loses all. The “unforeseen joy” is that the partner of Damon, which hid under a domino, is not the knight rascal, but his/her own father.

Source

Jean Fleury, Marivaux and the light-hearted gallantry , Paris, Plon, 1881, p. 106-4

External bonds

'' unforeseen Joy '' on site CÉSAR

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