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Title: The Misanthrope and Tartuffe by Richard Wilbur ISBN: 0-15-660517-1 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 20 October, 1965 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: "Sincerity in excess / Can get you into a very pretty mess"
Comment: Here they are. The Misanthrope and Tartuffe, arguably Moliere's two most famous plays, translated by Pulizter Prize-winner Richard Wilbur, the crown jewels of his poetic output. These translations are performed all the time, and have proved themselves on the modern stage. But the effect of them is not lessened by reading, as this bookshelf-ready edition shows. They are packed with hilarious observations about the pretentions in us all.
The Misanthrope is about a man who tells the harshest truth to everyone but himself; Tartuffe about hypocricy in religion. They read fast and funny, the rhyming couplets of the original faithfully reproduced. The language seems so natural and witty that you think perhaps these plays weren't written in the seventeenth century. But they were, this species of farce being extinct these days, except in rare places like The Simpsons. I can not only unhesitatingly recommend these, but also all of Wilbur's translations of Moliere. It is rare for a comic author to get such a seriously worthy treatment. Hooray!
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant Balletic Comedy & Translation
Comment: In both these plays, Wilbur brings Moliere's true genius to real life. Previous translations of Moliere's work pale by comparison to Wilbur's brilliant translations. It was my feeling, that would Moliere by alive today, and writing in American English, he would write the way Wilbur translated it.
In comparison to prose translations in the past, Wilbur, past US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, truly gives the reader the real feeling of Moliere's "Balletic Comedy" style, as Moliere used his poetry and comedy to make complex and serious points about life of "regular" people, as opposed to royalty such as Shakespeare concentrated on, and so many other playwrites of the past.
In reading Wilbur's translations, one can virtually imagine the cast prancing and mincing across the stage as they humorously render these rhyming couplets at each other, and the audience. The true genius of both Moliere and Wilbur is illustrated most profoundly and strikingly in these translations. Any true lover of Moliere, and even those who have never read him before, should treat themselves to Wilbur's translations for a Moliere experience, that is unparalleled in any other versions previously published.
Rating: 5
Summary: 500 years old and laugh-out-loud funny
Comment: It is amazing that a 500 year old rhyming play can be laugh-out-loud funny. Celimene is surely one of the most sharp tounged, wittiest feminine roles in the theater. I saw the very long legged Umma Thurman perform a modern adaption of this play off broadway. Tartuffe is also good but it does not rhyme. Neither does Moilière's "Don Juan".
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Title: The School for Wives and The Learned Ladies, by Moli¿re: Two comedies in an acclaimed translation. by Richard Wilbur ISBN: 0156795027 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 15 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Phaedra, by Racine by Richard Wilbur ISBN: 015675780X Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 04 September, 1987 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Wild Duck: Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, Michael Meyer, Michael Leverson Meyer ISBN: 0393314499 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Four Major Plays: A Doll House, the Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, the Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen ISBN: 0451524063 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 01 September, 1989 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Faust I & II (Goethe : The Collected Works, Vol 2) by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Stuart Atkins ISBN: 069103656X Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 05 July, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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