A minor character in this play boasts that she is such a good matchmaker, that she can make "the Grand Turk marry the Republic of Venice."
A minor character in this play boasts that she is such a good matchmaker, that she can make "the Grand Turk marry the Republic of Venice." Thomas Shadwell and Henry Fielding staged popular English adaptations of this play. The title character of this play clasps his own arm and casts suspicions on everyone, even the audience, in his great soliloquy at the end of Act IV.  Near the end of this play, a brother and a sister independently reveal that they both survived a shipwreck, and that they are both the children of Neapolitan nobleman (*) Don Thomas d'Alburci. At an unsatisfying dinner party in this play's second act, the title character's son removes a huge diamond ring from his father's finger to blackmail him. Anselme agrees to finance two weddings at the end of this play, between Elise and the steward Valere, and Mariane and Cleante. The title character of this play freaks out that someone stole his buried money. For 10 points, name this Plautus-derived play about the pinchpenny Harpagon, written by Moliere.
A minor character in this play boasts that she is such a good matchmaker, that she can make "the Grand Turk marry the Republic of Venice."
The Miser [or L'Avare]