The School for Husbands and The Imaginary Cuckold

Molière wrote some of the most durable and penetrating comedies of all time. The Imaginary Cuckold and The School for Husbands are two of his grand farces of marriage and misunderstanding, one set in Paris and the other in the provinces.

In The School for Husbands, a tyrannical husband-to-be seeks to isolate his ward, while unwittingly carrying her messages of devotion to her lover.

In The Imaginary Cuckold an enraged husband imagines his wife is unfaithful, but is reluctant to defend his h...