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The Rogueries of Scapin

Molière

The Rogueries of Scapin

Paper book: €14.99

Digital: €3.99

Original publication
1671
Monolingual
22 October 2026
Pages
115
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Theatre, Humor
Moods
Have a laugh, Escape it all
Translated from
French

Book summary

In Naples, while their fathers are away, Octave and Léandre have fallen in love. But these two miserly old men would never accept their sons' choice. The valet Scapin gets them out of trouble by inventing trick after trick to fool the fathers, even shutting one of them in a sack to give him a beating.

Farce and wit mix in this comedy, in which Molière wrote one of his most famous lines: “What the devil was he doing in that galley?”

Written in short, lively dialogue, it is easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

僕人編造假綁架。在拿坡里,萊昂德爾得籌到錢,才能把心愛的姑娘澤比內特留在身邊。他的父親熱隆特有錢,卻很吝嗇。萊昂德爾的僕人司卡班對熱隆特說,一個土耳其人用船把他兒子帶走了,要五百埃居才肯放人。

The world of the book

拿坡里,地中海的大港口。故事發生在義大利的拿坡里。兩位富商阿爾岡特和熱隆特出門旅行了兩個月。這期間,他們的兒子都墜入愛河,阿爾岡特的兒子奧克塔夫還偷偷結了婚。今天早晨,兩位父親從海上回來了。

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