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Musset's elegant later Proverbe (1849) — a miniature one-act in which a Marquis who forgets to arrange a horse stumbles into a charming social encounter with the host's daughter. The later Musset working in the Proverbe form with lighter stakes and a more comfortable social accommodation.
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Il faut qu'une porte soit ouverte ou fermée
by Alfred de Musset
The companion one-act Proverbe that shows the form at its most concentrated and most emotionally resonant — the model that On ne saurait penser à tout follows at slightly lower stakes.
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Il ne faut jurer de rien
by Alfred de Musset
The more elaborate Proverbe that preceded On ne saurait penser à tout — the same type of comedic situation (the young man disarmed by a woman) worked out in three acts rather than one.
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Fantasio
by Alfred de Musset
The major comedy that established the tone for the Proverbes — the lightness of On ne saurait penser à tout is the natural endpoint of what Fantasio began in a more romantic register.
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Emma
by Jane Austen
Austen's social comedy works in the same register as the later Musset Proverbes — the observation of small social encounters, the revelation of character through conversational awkwardness, the comedy of misunderstanding.
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The Rivals
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The English comedy of social confusion and charming misunderstanding — the tradition that Musset's lighter Proverbes belong to, when the emotional stakes are lower and the comedy higher.
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Les Caprices de Marianne
by Alfred de Musset
The early Musset play that shows where the lighter later work came from — reading the progression from Les Caprices (1833) to On ne saurait penser à tout (1849) shows how Musset's comedy evolved.
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Le Misanthrope
by Molière
The great ancestor of French social comedy — in On ne saurait penser à tout, as in Molière, the social conversation itself reveals character more than any direct statement could.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
Wilde's comedy of social accident and charming absurdity — the English equivalent of what Musset achieves in the lighter Proverbes, where the situation is comic but the observation is precise.
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