Beauty in Jacques Audiberti's Le 'Mal court'

Apparently, Le mal court, a play which seems to deal first with a princess and marriage plans, plunges us into the beauty of fairy tales. But very soo n we realize that Audiberti subverts this too perfect beauty into a parody by using a trompe-l'oeil aesthetics taken from baroque art. In fact, in thi s play which asserts the overwhelming presence of evil and ugliness, beauty can rather be found in the way Alarica, the heroine, takes advantage of th is evil: as is often the case in Audiberti's theatre, the young lady, thank s to her instinct, even in its wilder aspect, embodies true beauty of Diony siac essence.