Home > Authors Index > Moliere > Bores: A Comedy in Three Acts > This page
The Bores: A Comedy in Three Acts, a play by Moliere |
||
Dramatis Personae |
||
| < Previous |
Table of content |
Next > |
|
________________________________________________
_ ERASTE, _in love with Orphise_. DAMIS, _guardian to Orphise_. ALCIDOR, _a bore_. LISANDRE, _a bore_. ALCANDRE, _a bore_. ALCIPPE, _a bore_. DORANTE, _a bore_. CARITIDES, _a bore_. ORMIN, _a bore_. FILINTE, _a bore_. LA MONTAGNE, _servant to Eraste_. L'EPINE, _servant to Damis_. LA RIVIERE _and_ TWO COMRADES. ORPHISE, _in love with Eraste_. ORANTE, _a female bore_. CLIMENE, _a female bore_. _Scene_.--PARIS. * * * * * [Footnote: Moliere himself played probably the parts of Lisandre the dancer, Alcandre the duellist, or Alcippe the gambler, and perhaps all three, with some slight changes in the dress. He also acted Caritides the pedant, and Dorante the lover of the chase. In the inventory taken after Moliere's death we find: "A dress for the Marquis of the _Facheux_, consisting in a pair of breeches very large, and fastened below with ribbands, (_rhingrave_), made of common silk, blue and gold-coloured stripes, with plenty of flesh-coloured and yellow trimmings, with Colbertine, a doublet of Colbertine cloth trimmed with flame-coloured ribbands, silk stockings and garters." The dress of Caritides in the same play, "cloak and breeches of cloth, with picked trimmings, and a slashed doublet." Dorante's dress was probably "a hunting-coat, sword and belt; the above-mentioned hunting-coat ornamented with fine silver lace, also a pair of stag-hunting gloves, and a pair of long stockings (_bas a botter_) of yellow cloth." The original inventory, given by M. Soulie, has _toile Colbertine_, for "Colbertine cloth." I found this word in Webster's Dictionary described from _The Fop's Dictionary of 1690_ as "A lace resembling net-work, the fabric of Mons. Colbert, superintendent of the French king's manufactures." In Congreve's _The Way of the World_, Lady Wishfort, quarrelling with her woman Foible (Act v., Scene i), says to her, among other insults: "Go, hang out an old Frisoneer gorget, with a yard of yellow colberteen again!"] THE BORES (_LES FACHEUX._) _ |
||