The French Isabella acts like
Harriet, but then she has a foolish and jealous guardian.
Wycherley in _The Country Wife_, probably acted in 1672 or 1673,
and which is partly an imitation of Moli?re's _School for Wives_,
has borrowed from _The School for Husbands_, the letter which
Isabella writes to Val?re (Act ii., Scene 8), and also the scene in
which Isabella escapes disguised in her sister's clothes: but, of
course, to give an additional zest to the English play, the author makes
Pinchwife himself bring his wife to her lover, Horner. The scene hardly
bears transcribing. He has also partly imitated in _The Gentleman
Dancing-Master_, first performed in 1673, some scenes of _The
School for Husbands_.
Otway, in _The Soldier's Fortune_ (see Introductory Notice to
_Sganarelle, or The Self-Deceived Husband_), has borrowed from
Moli?re's _School for Husbands_ that part of his play in which Lady
Dunse makes her husband the agent for conveying a ring and a letter to
her lover.
DRAMATIS PERSON?.
SGANARELLE, [Footnote: This part was played by Moli?re himself.
In the inventory taken after Moli?re's death, and given by M. Souli?,
we find: "A dress for _The School for Husbands_, consisting of
breeches, doublet, cloak, collar, purse and girdle, all of a kind of
brown coloured (_couleur de muse_) satin."]
}
} _brothers_.
ARISTE, )
VAL?RE, _lover to Isabella_.
ERGASTE, _servant to Val?re_.
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