Ruy Blas Un Dénouement Romantique

unity from a consistent concern with human behaviour and social foibles. He repeated plots, situations and characters from play to play – fathers who force their children to marry against their will, servants who plot against their masters, stagy dénouements which save the day – because they worked well in theatrical terms. But even his broadest comedy always has a point: to highlight the folly of his monomaniacs or to show some social failing in an absurd light. But from the start, he also drew on