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
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
From this reading had sprung the idea of making Cyrano the central figure of a drama laid in the city of Richelieu, d’Artagnan, and the Précieuses Ridicules, a seventeenth-century Paris of love and duelling.
From The Ways of Men by Gregory, Eliot
To Mr Mansion also is due the credit for the translation of the "Les Souhaits Ridicules" and for the adaptation of "Peau d'Asne."
From The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault by Clarke, Harry
