. Molière
Author
Series
Signet classic volume CE 1566
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of seven comedic plays representing the many facets of Moliere's genius and offering an introduction to his comic inventiveness and insight.
Author
Language
English
Description
An imposter cleric gets into the house of the wealthy Orgon, whom he fools into promising him his wealth, position, and his young daughter. The translation into English verse of one of Moliegravere's most masterful and most popular plays. A continuous delight from beginning to end (Richard Eberhart). Introduction by Richard Wilbur.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1965]
Edition
First Harvest edition.
Language
English
Description
In brilliant rhymed couplets, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur renders two of seventeenth-century French playwright Moliere's comic masterpieces into English, capturing not only the form and spirit of the language but also its substance.
The Misanthrope is a searching comic study of falsity, shallowness, and self-righteousness through the character of Alceste, a man whose conscience and and sincerity are too rigorous for his time. In...
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