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A tragedy, no doubt.
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No, a comedy, a farce.
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Or a tragedy, if you prefer.
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It's all the same.
There's no difference.
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Or very little.
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For example,
if a king is deceived,
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it's a tragedy of infidelity.
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He's deceived not by his wife...
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- But by Fate.
- Yes, Fate.
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But if it's a poor devil like you or me,
Monsieur de Montray...
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and I use "me" as a figure of speech...
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it's no longer a tragedy,
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but mere buffoonery,
a sorry tale of cuckolds.
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Yet it's the same matter
under the pauper's cap or the crown.
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The dead matter of love
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rotting in the heads
of the unloved.
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Always the same matter,
the same stories, the same tears.
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So the genre is nothing.
My play need only amuse.
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Starting with the author.
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- If it's performed.
- Don't worry, gentlemen.
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It will be.
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It's in progress as we speak.
If you'd like a part...
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- Very funny.
- Yes, it is very funny.
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But, I warn you,
there are murders,
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and at the final curtain,
the dead won't rise for a bow.
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This man is tedious.
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- Shall we throw him out?
- Good idea!
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Don't try to humiliate me.
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I'm not some character
out of a farce.
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But you are!
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And I'll prove it!
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What have you done?
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It doesn't concern you.
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Gentlemen, I've just savoured
a most exquisite moment.