The Magnificent Lovers

About this film

LibriVox recording of The Magnificent Lovers by Molière. (Translated by Charles Heron Wall.) Read in English by thestorygirl; ToddHW; Larry Wilson; Sonia; Leanne Yau; Tomas Peter; Jim Locke; April6090; Nemo; EikyTavie; Morgan Z. Sowell; Aaron White; Josh Kibbey; Lex Hankins; Elsie Selwyn; Cornel Nemes; Gail Wamba; Son of the Exiles; Sandra Schmit; Nichalia Schwartz; Foon; Campbell Schelp; Frédéric Surget "The King [Louis XIV], who will have nothing but what is magnificent in all he undertakes, wished to give his court an entertainment which should comprise all that the stage can furnish. To facilitate the execution of so vast an idea, and to link together so many different things, his Majesty chose for the subject two rival princes, who, in the lovely vale of Tempe, where the Pythian Games were to be celebrated, vie with each other in fêting a young princess and her mother with all imaginable gallantries." - Summary by The Translator Cast list: Iphicrate, prince in love with Eriphyle: Aaron White Timocles, prince in love with Eriphyle: Josh Kibbey Sostratus, a general, also in love with Eriphyle: Tomas Peter Anaxarchus, an astrologer: Sonia Cleon, his son: Campbell Schelp Chorœbus,…

Directors & creators

Molière

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;Louis XIV

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