History of English Literature Volume 1 (of 3)

by Hippolyte Taine

[559]"Volpone," V. 1.

[560]Ibid. V. 8.

[561]"Epicœne," III. 2.

[562]Ibid. III. 2.

[563]Compare M. de Pourceaugnac in Molière.

[564]"Epicœne," IV. I, 2.

[565]Ibid. V.

[566]Compare Polichinelle in "Le Malade imaginaire"; Géronte in "Les Fourberies de Scapin."

[567]Compare "L'École des Femmes, Tartuffe, Le Misanthrope, Le Bourgeois-gentilhomme, Le Malade imaginaire, Georges Dandin."

[568]Compare "Les Fourberies de Scapin."