Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (Classiques illustres)

Literature & Fiction

Molière

Dramas & Plays

Pergamon

Translates five plays of Moliere and comments upon the background of each dramatization

The Misanthrope and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)

Penguin Classics

A comic satire recounts how Jupiter takes on the form of the Theban general Amphitryon while that mortal is away at war, in order to spend the night with Amphitryon's beautiful wife, Alcmena

Amphitryon

Harcourt

The translation into English verse of one of Molière’s most masterful and most popular plays. “A continuous delight from beginning to end” (Richard Eberhart). Introduction by Richard Wilbur.

Tartuffe: A Comedy in Five Acts (English and French Edition)

Wilbur, Richard

Harcourt, Brace, & Company

Classic Literature, French Literature, Plays, Literary Studies

Four comedies

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

School For Husbands And Sganarelle, Or The Imaginary Cuckold, By Moliere

Two plays in which the entertaining character of Sganarelle appears-in The School for Husbands as a guardian, and in Sganarelle, or The Imaginary Cuckold as a duped and jealous husband. Introductions by Richard Wilbur.

School For Husbands and Sganarelle, or The Imaginary Cuckold, by Moliere

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Wilbur is at the peak of his form in this stellar translation of an unusual Molière play-populated with Greeks and Greco-Roman gods and flavored with the essences of vaudeville, fan-tasy, high comedy, farce, and even opera. Afterword by Richard Wilbur.

Amphitryon, By Molière

Ecco

Don Juan, the "Seducer of Seville," originated as a hero-villain of Spanish folk legend, is a famous lover and scoundrel who has made more than a thousand sexual conquests. One of Molière's best-known plays, Don Juan was written while Tartuffe was still banned on the stages of Paris, and shared much with the outlawed play. Modern directors transform Don Juan in every new era, as each director finds something new to highlight in this timeless classic. Richard Wilbur's flawless translation will be the standard for generations to come, as have his translations of Molière's other plays. Witty, urbane, and poetic in its prose, Don Juan is, most importantly, as funny now as it was for audiences when it was first presented.

Don Juan

Classic comedy / 5 m., 6 f. (doubling possible). / Int. This rollicking version of Les Femmes Savantes delighted audiences Off Broadway in a production starring Jean Stapleton as Philamente, a most unliterary lady intent on having a high toned literary salon. She has neither literary nor common sense, which makes her easy prey for sycophantic con artist Trissotin. He passes himself off as a famous poet and becomes a permanent house guest. Philamente hopes to marry her daughter to Trissotin, but the daughter wishes to marry the unsuitable Clitandre. This version strays from a strictly literal translation of Moliere's play, often employing anachronisms in the rhymed couplets that will appall purists and absolutely delight everyone else. If you want your audiences to roll with laughter as they watch a play by a "famous dead playwright," this version is for you. "Thomas' modernisms smartly put the satire's emphasis on the pomposity rather than the feminism of the Precieuse Movement." Variety. FEE: $75 per performance.

The Learned Ladies: Comedy in Five Acts, 1672 (English and French Edition)

Two classic plays translated by a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet into English verse. In The Misanthrope, society itself is indicted and the impurity of its critic’s motives is exposed. In Tartuffe, the bigoted and prudish Orgon falls completely under the power of the wily Tartuffe. Introductions by Richard Wilbur.

The Misanthrope and Tartuffe

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