Show WOMEN now they compare ith those of A comp comparison arlson with the women char actors of shakespeare peare inevitably bug bests itself but must be discarded at the outset for shakespeare Shakespea ie e a creations hla the passions be are on a gigantic sea scale while the people of mollere rai ely re r e aboe aam e the stature of the average bamin being sas the also it Is to bo be noticed that in molisie the fc minine roles instead of standing out in bold relief with the strong u of be beitrice beatrice itrice portia rosalind take their color aiom n oin the group of plays to which serially belong for the exploitation of a heroine as such a ione ioe stoid Is essential in a comedy but as in bollore love pure and nd simple Is careb the dominating theme it nat follows that the heroine is rarely the personage of the play taking the gi group aup of which LA caare are tartuffe lo le Al malade alade re an and A le bourgeoise Bourge e are shining examples the motif is tile the VICO vice or foible of an elderly man and the plot Is worked out on oil a lovo love story of a rather conn coment ent lonal ional character lavare bim himself self le malade cimagl dalre le Bourgo olse gentilhomme Gentl lhomme and orgon the victim of tartuffe Tar tufTe are all men of adi advanced cars beads of families each has a di tighter young lovely and accomplished each daughter loves and Is 18 loved by a youth amiable virtuous and devoted each bac h father has picked out a sonin son eon in ln law according to his own oin which never happens to be his daughters daughter s and each father Is ultimately outwitted through some movement of his own foible and la Is prevailed upon accordingly to bless the rightful lovers these girls are all in kind hind and character they haie charming comedy scenes in which they profess their love generally to a faithful waiting mald maid whose ic idy wit brings about a happy solution of their troubles or in which they ither defy their fathers or implore them pie preferring ferring death or a consent to an unloved husband and occasionally piquant scenes in which theli loers appear in disguise and make loo ione to them andor the ilia very nose of a stern but easil easily bamboozler bamboozled father |