In one of Molière's most popular plays, Scapin, that monarch of con men,
puts his store of ingenuity to work, getting two lovesick young men
married to the girls they pine for and, along the way, taking revenge on
their grasping old fathers. Closed down after its first, highly
successful run because of opposition from powerful enemies of the
playwright, Don Juan was performed in a bowdlerized version for almost
two hundred years, until actors, directors and critics restored the
original text, recognizing it as the most ambitious and mightiest of
Molière's prose plays. Bermel's translations of the scripts as presented
here have received rave reviews.