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 soon 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 this play which asserts the overwhelming presence of evil and ugliness, beauty can rather be found in the way Alarica, the heroine, takes advantage of this evil: as is often the case in Audiberti's theatre, the young lady, thanks to her instinct, even in its wilder aspect, embodies true beauty of Dionysiac essence.