The Impostures of Scapin

Molière

Translated by Charles Heron Wall

34 chapters · about 65 min

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The opening

SCENE I.

OCTAVE, SILVESTRE.

OCT. Ah! what sad news for one in love! What a hard fate to be reduced to! So, Silvestre, you have just heard at the harbour that my father is coming back?

SIL. Yes.

OCT. That he returns this very morning?

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About this edition

The words
Charles Heron Wall's English translation, copied word for word.
Left out
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
  • A preface, foreword or afterword
  • The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
  • The dash joining a scene's number to its setting (the setting follows as its own line)
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 3 places