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Don Juan and Other Plays by Moliere
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Contains: Don Juan, Precious Provincials, The Reluctant Doctor, George Dandin, The Miser, The Would-be Gentleman, Scapin the Schemer Since the second half of the seventeenth century, when Moli're composed and performed his comedies, scarcely a decade has passed in which they have not been revived, imi ...Show more
Four French Plays: Cinna, The Misanthrope, Andromache, Phaedra by Corneille, Moliere and Racine
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
This new Penguin volume includes the 'greatest hits' of French classical theatre, in vivid and acclaimed English translations. The plays in this volume - Cinna, The Misanthrope, Andromache and Phaedra - span only thirty-seven years, but make up the defining period of French theatre. In Corneille's Cinna ...Show more
Landmarks Of French Classical Drama: "The Cid", " Phedra", "Tartuffe", "The Lottery of Love", " The Marriage of Figaro" by Moliere
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Play Anthologies
Contains five works from the classical period of French theatre - "The Cid", "Phedra", "Tartuffe", "The Lottery of Love" and "The Marriage of Figaro".
Misanthrope And Other Plays by Moliere
Category: General Fiction
Features the plays "Misanthrope", "Such Preposterously Precious Ladies", "Tartuffe", "A Doctor Despite Himself", "The Would-Be Gentleman", and "Those Learned Ladies".
Moliere - Five Plays: The Misanthrope; Tartuffe; The School for Wives; The Miser; The Hypochondriac by Moliere
Category: Classics | Series: Methuen World Classics Ser.
'This volume brings together five of Moliere''s finest and best-known plays. The three verse plays, The Misanthrope, Tartuffe and The School for Wives, have been skilfully turned into sparkling English couplets by Richard Wilbur''s ''brilliant rhymed translation'' Sunday Telegraph; while the playwright ...Show more
Moliere: the Complete Richard Wilbur Translations by Moliere; Richard Wilbur (Translator); Adam Gopnik (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
For the 400th anniversary of Moliere's birth, all of Richard Wilbur's unsurpassed translations of Molière's plays--themselves towering achievements in English verse--are brought together for the first time in this two-volume gift set. One of the most accomplished American poets of his generation, Richa ...Show more
School for Wives, the Learned Ladies by Moliere
Category: Classics
The School for Wives concerns an insecure man who contrives to show the world how to rig an infallible alliance by marrying the perfect bride; The Learned Ladies centers on the domestic calamities wrought by a domineering woman upon her husband, children, and household. "Wilbur...makes Moliere into as g ...Show more
Tartuffe and Other Plays by Moliere
Category: Film & Tv
This memorable collection gathers the plays of the great social satirist and playwright Moliere, representing the many facets of his genius and offering a superb introduction to the comic inventiveness, richness of prose and insight that make up Moliere's enduring legacy to theatre, literature and the w ...Show more
The Miser and Other Plays by Moliere
Category: Poetry
Moliere combined all the traditional elements of comedy - wit, slapstick, spectacle and satire - to create richly sophisticated and enduringly popular dramas. "The Miser" is the story of Harpagon, a mean-spirited old man who becomes obsessed with making money out of the marriage of his children, while " ...Show more
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