ridicules
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The piece was Italian Composer Felice Lattuada's pleasant if unimportant version of Moliere's Precicuses Ridicules, presented as curtain-raiser to Modeste Moussorgsky's boorish peasant farce, The Fair at Sorochintzy, whose premiere was given the fortnight before.
From Time Magazine Archive
This serio-comic delineation of dictatorship on the rampage deserves a special niche in your Hall of Famous Ridicules.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Précieuses Ridicules was acted in the presence of the assembled Hôtel de Rambouillet with immense applause.
From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac
They did "Tartuffe," "L'Avare," "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme," "Les Précieuses Ridicules," and a condensed version of "Le Dépit Amoureux," in which the four acts of the original were cut down into two.
From Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory by Symons, Arthur
Molière, 30, 90; plays of, 85-87; Femmes Savantes, and Précieuses Ridicules of, 172; L'École des Femmes of, 412.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine
