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The Game of Love and Chance
Stephen Wadsworth
Successful Strategies
by Timberlake Wertenbaker, Pierre Carlet de Marivaux
Synopsis
"Timberlake Wertenbaker's translation defies the old rule that you can't do Marivaux in English.
Marivaux here analyses the chessboard element of love in which caprice mixes with strategy.
A rich rose-decked Comtesse, turning infidelity into a style, whimsically abandons her lover, Dorante.
Instead she takes up with the posturing and absurd Chevalier.
And, in order to get her revenge, the latter's abandoned lover, the Marquise, forms an amorous alliance with Dorante.
What this leaves out of account, however, are the servants (shrewd maids and valets anything but green) who in Marivaux are both victims of their employers' passions and skillful tacticians in their own right."
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Publication
Publisher Samuel French
Successful Strategies is a comedy play written by Timberlake Wertenbaker and published by Samuel French .
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