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The School for Wives concerns an insecure man who contrives to show the world how to rig an infallible alliance by marrying the perfect bride; The Learned Ladies centers on the domestic calamities wrought by a domineering woman upon her husband, children, and household.
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Aaron Eck
reviewed The School for Wives, and the Learned Ladies on December 03, 2017
The School for Wives, and the Learned Ladies
"A School For Wives" is about some old buffoon named Arnolphe whose afraid of 'sprouting the horns' as it were (cuckoldry); a theme the Late Medieval/Early Modern French could simply not shut up about. To avoid this obsessive danger Arnolphe engineers a long term plan that is, frankly, horrifying. His course of action centers around raising a 4 year old girl he fancies to become perfectly ignorant of worldly manners, so that he may marry her when she comes of age. This man is so consumed by his desire to not become a cuckold it's downright painful to see: he makes Panurge (in the 3rd Pantagrueline book) seem like a carefree bachelor.
Right off the bat he's told the plan is beyond stupid and will certainly fail, and sure enough, before the 1st Act is even over, he runs into complications. Most of the humour comes from Arnolphe repeatedly trying to salvage the situation, which gets more and more unrepairable as we scurry along. I've never read a rhymed play before so that aspect of it was a real treat for me. On top of that, Moliere can really write so it's not entirely a chore to get through this. He must of had real fun playing the role of Arnolphe himself since the dude is one failure away from a hemorrhage in every scene.
The play is resolved in a way that is seen in every Roman Comedy, that is, an unexpected familial connection ties things neatly together. If you've read as much Plautus/Terence as I have this ending will make you sick to the very core. If I had a 'one use' time machine I would zap myself to Paris and beg Moliere to ditch this damn comedic model that was instituted 1800 years before his existence.
This play generated heavy controversy which is directly responded to, in play form (naturally), by Moliere. The play is called "The School For Wives Criticized" and spawned a whole host of polemical retaliation, in play form (naturally), from his enemies. It's wild to see how heated other playwrights got back then from simply observing another persons production.
Didn't read "The Learned Ladies".
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