Used book – L'Illusion comique, complete text, Corneille

In love with each other, Clindor and Isabelle will use all means (insolence, theft, prison, escape, murder) to save a union that their families oppose. But what the heroes don't know is that Clindor's father is witnessing their adventures. How? Thanks to old Alcandre who "projects" images of their lives in his magic cave! A premonition of the invention of cinema, the play is also a celebration of theater. For what Alcandre doesn't say is that the lovers have become actors in the meantime... Who knows then if the heroes we were watching live weren't actually performing a play?