EBOOK DON GARCIA OF NAVARRE ***
Produced by David Moynihan, D Garcia, Charles Franks
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
[Proofreader's Note: The scenes in Act III are misnumbered in the
original, they are labeled I, II, III, VI, and VII. This has been
retained in the text.]
DON GARCIE DE NAVARRE;
OU,
LE PRINCE JALOUX.
COMEDIE H?RO?QUE EN CINQ ACTES.
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DON GARCIA OF NAVARRE
OR,
THE JEALOUS PRINCE.
A HEROIC COMEDY IN FIVE ACTS.
(_THE ORIGINAL IN VERSE_.)
INTRODUCTORY NOTICE.
Nothing can be more unlike _The Pretentious Young Ladies_ or
_Sganarelle_ than Moli?re's _Don Garcia of Navarre_. The Th??tre du
Palais-Royal had opened on the 20th January, 1661, with _The Love-Tiff_
and _Sganarelle_, but as the young wife of Louis XIV., Maria Theresa,
daughter of Philip IV., King of Spain, had only lately arrived, and as a
taste for the Spanish drama appeared to spring up anew in France,
Moli?re thought perhaps that a heroic comedy in that style might meet
with some success, the more so as a company of Spanish actors had been
performing in Paris the plays of Lope de Vega and Calderon, since the
24th of July, 1660.
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