In the preface to this one-act prose work, the author takes care to distinguish between legitimate poets and their imitators, whom he proceeds to ridicule.
In the preface to this one-act prose work, the author takes care to distinguish between legitimate poets and their imitators, whom he proceeds to ridicule. Overly influenced by the novels of Mme de Scudery, Madelon and Cathos, the daughter and niece of the provincial bourgeois Gorgibus, reject their suitors. They are very impressed by the flowery speech of their new admirers, the marquis de Mascarille and the vicomte de Jodelet, but are embarrassed when it turns out that these two noblemen are really just the valets of the rejected suitors. FTP name this comedy that mocks the pedantry and affectation of poetic language, presented in 1659 and written by Moliere.
In the preface to this one-act prose work, the author takes care to distinguish between legitimate poets and their imitators, whom he proceeds to ridicule.
Les Precieuses Ridicules or The Precious Damsels or The Ridiculous Snobs