Project Gutenberg 2011-04-25 Public domain in the USA. 66 Inchbald, Mrs. 1753 1821 Inchbald, Elizabeth Simpson Patrat, Joseph 1732 1801 Patrat, J. (Joseph) The Widow's Vow: A Farce, in Two Acts Plot taken from "L'heureuse erreur" of Patrat. Produced by Delphine Lettau and the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net "The Widow's Vow: A Farce, in Two Acts" by Mrs. Inchbald and Joseph Patrat is a theatrical farce written in the late 18th century. The play unfolds in a Spanish village and centers around the complexities of love, deception, and the societal expectations surrounding marriage and vow-taking. It explores themes of gender roles and the folly of appearances in romantic entanglements. The narrative follows the Countess, a widow who has sworn to avoid all men following her disastrous romantic past. Her uncle, Don Antonio, seeks to introduce her to the young Marquis, who unbeknownst to her, is actually a woman in disguise. As misunderstandings pile up, both the Countess and the Marquis must navigate love and identity, leading to humorous confrontations and revelations. Ultimately, the play highlights the idea that true affection supersedes rigid vows and societal conventions, culminating in a light-hearted but pointed commentary on love and deception. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Comedies English drama PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Performing Arts/Film Browsing: Fiction 85061 85070 2024-09-15T09:20:08.635929 2023-09-15T14:32:32.741311 text/html text/html 82283 2011-04-25T09:55:16 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 25376 2011-04-25T09:55:16 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 95773 2024-09-15T09:20:13.248923 application/epub+zip 95702 2024-09-15T09:20:10.206945 application/epub+zip 95701 2024-09-15T09:20:09.219930 application/epub+zip 259668 2024-09-15T09:20:15.331904 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 247100 2024-09-15T09:20:12.607910 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 165040 2022-09-16T12:38:53.112871 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 59610 59510 2024-09-15T09:20:08.180159 2023-09-15T14:32:32.127281 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 59463 2011-04-25T09:55:16 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 22771 2011-04-25T09:55:16 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 59455 2011-04-25T09:55:16 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 22758 2011-04-25T09:55:16 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20951 2024-09-15T09:20:15.477886 application/rdf+xml 19878 2024-09-15T09:20:09.647914 image/jpeg 4573 2024-09-15T09:20:09.407913 image/jpeg 96544 2024-09-15T09:20:08.643919 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia