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The Misanthrope and Tartuffe, by Molière

The Misanthrope and Tartuffe, by Molière

Wilbur, Richard

Paperback

Series: Harvest Book

PlaysPlaywritingShakespeare

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 0156605171
ISBN13: 9780156605175
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Oct 20 1965
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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 Tartuffe, a wily, opportunistic swindler manipulates a wealthy prude and bigot through his claims of piety. This latter translation earned Wilbur a share of the Bollingen Translation Prize for his critically-acclaimed work of this satiric take on religious hypocrisy.Mr. Wilbur has given us a sound, modern, conversational poetry and has made Moliere's The Misanthrope brilliantly our own. -- The New York Times Book ReviewRichard Wilbur's translation of Tartuffe is a continuous delight from beginning to end. -- Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet Richard Eberhart

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