Polichinelle précepteur

Printed

16 pages

Polichinelle précepteur

| Paris, France
Characters
Polichinelle, Pierrot, Arlequin, Le Gendarme, Le Diable
Number of acts
1
Plot summary

Good education according to Polichinelle

The rich Cassandre, desperate for his foolish and insolent son Pierrot, is prepared to hire a very expensive tutor. Polichinelle is hired, but his bad lessons in obedience, geography, arithmetic, morals and fencing immediately turn Pierrot into a brawler, drinker, liar and thief who ends up being hanged for swindling Arlequin, the cabaret owner. When Cassandra complains to Polichinelle, he kills him with a stick. Denounced by Arlequin as Pierrot's accomplice, Polichinelle kills the gendarme who came to arrest him. He is taken away by the Devil.

First performance

Paris, France,
Théâtre de marionnettes du jardin des Tuileries

Publications and translations

Publication

Duranty, Théâtre des marionnettes du jardin des Tuileries, texte et composition des dessins par M. Duranty. Paris: MM. Dubuisson et Cie, Éditeurs-Libraires, 1862.

Modern edition

Louis Edmond Duranty, Théâtre des marionnettes. Arles: Actes Sud, 1995.

Translations
  • Louis Duranty, Merchant of blows-with-a-stick and other plays (English and French edition), english translation by Sean Keohane, Charlemagne Press (Canada) 2007.

    (English)
Language
French
Literary tones
Comical, Farcical, Satirical
Animations techniques
Glove-puppet
Audience
All audiences
Licence
Public domain

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Carole Guidicelli