Doctor Scratch and Other Plays

Three French comedies revolving around marriage misidentification medicine--and money! DOCTOR SCRATCH by Noël le Breton is a clever and hilarious farce in which love becomes hopelessly entangled in the attempts by the characters to improve their declining financial situations. THE SERVANT PROBLEM by Alain-René Lesage the well-known novelist two criminals manage to insert themselves as valets to several young men looking to marry the daughters of wealthy families--and decide to abscond with the dowry themselves! In THE FORFEITURE by Charles Dufresny a handsome young man is constricted in his marriage prospects by the fact that his two maiden-lady aunts control the family fortune which can only be forfeited to him if they marry. Another valet takes charge by seducing both women in different guises. Three very funny--and very modern--takes on the art and science of romancing!