The School of Love
What happens when a man tries to make love safe?
In The School for Husbands and The School for Wives, Molière gives us two wonderfully comic experiments in marriage. One man trusts freedom. Others prefer supervision, ignorance, and control. And, with impeccable comic timing, nearly everything goes wrong.
More than 360 years later, the questions underneath the laughter remain surprisingly alive. Can virtue be manufactured by removing temptation? Is innocence the same as ignorance? Can education protect us from making bad choices without also preventing us from learning how to make good ones?…
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