Misanthrope And Tartuffe (eBook)

Moliere (Autor)

Richard Wilbur (Herausgeber)

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1965 | 1. Auflage
336 Seiten
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Verlag)
978-0-547-54218-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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The Pulitzer Prize winner's classic translations of Moliere's comic masterpieces satirizing shallowness, self-righteousness, and hypocrisy.The Misanthrope is a searching comic study of falsity, shallowness, and self-righteousness through the character of Alceste, a man whose conscience 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.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."e;Mr. Wilbur has given us a sound, modern, conversational poetry and has made Moliere's The Misanthrope brilliantly our own."e; -The New York Times Book Review"e;Richard Wilbur's translation of Tartuffe is a continuous delight from beginning to end."e; -Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet Richard Eberhart

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.10.1965
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
• ISBN-10: 0-547-54218-6 / 0547542186
• ISBN-13: 978-0-547-54218-8 / 9780547542188