"The Princess of Cleves"( Nathaniel Lee )

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" This paper is an examination of Nathaniel Lee's comedy, The Princess of Cleves, first produced in late 1681 or early 1682 during the Restoration period of the British theater and adapted from Madame de La Fayette's novel of the same name, which was published in France in 1678 and was based on true events of the French court. Lee used the plot and characters of the novel (adding some of his own invention) to create a much bawdier, more satirical look at marriage, virtue, and hypocrisy in society than the novel attempted. His play is wildly entertaining but also quite disturbing in the portrait it paints of an immoral rake and the destruction - some of it tragic, much of it farcical - he wreaks in the lives and marriages of those around him.
In Lee's play, the central character is not the Princess of Cleves but the man she secretly loves, Duke Nemours, a man "built.."

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