MARIVAUX. *L'École des mères*. Paris, Pierre Prault, 1732. In-12 (16

MARIVAUX. *L'École des mères*. Paris, Pierre Prault, 1732. In-12 (16 x 9.5 cm), green half-basane, spine decorated with fleurons. 61 pp. Covers scuffed, paper yellowed. First edition. A one-act comedy in prose, first performed by the Comédiens Italiens at the Théâtre de l’Hôtel de Bourgogne in July 1732. The play follows in the tradition of Marivaux’s comedies devoted to emotional education and parental authority: Angélique, a young woman raised in seclusion by a tyrannical mother

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