The Misanthrope Tartuffe And Other Plays

Author : Molière,
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199540187
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays written by Molière, and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback, 2001.

Author : Jean-Baptiste Moliere
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698192028
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Misanthrope and Other Plays written by Jean-Baptiste Moliere and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Misanthrope * The Doctor in Spite of Himself * The Miser * The Would-Be Gentleman * The Mischievous Machinations of Scapin * The Learned Women * The Imaginary Invalid “The comedy,” Molière once quipped, “is excellent, and they who deride it deserve to be derided.” Written during the triumphant final years of Molière’s career, these seven works represent the mature flowering of his artistry and the most profound development of his vision of humanity. They are essential to appreciating the full genius of this greatest and best-loved French comic author. With an Introduction by Donald M. Frame and an Afterword by Lewis C. Seifert

Author : Moliere
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598537121
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moliere: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations, Volume 2 written by Moliere and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the 400th anniversary of Moliere's birth, Richard Wilbur's unsurpassed translations of Molière's plays--themselves towering achievements in English verse--are brought together by Library of America in a two-volume edition One of the most accomplished American poets of his generation, Richard Wilbur (1921-2017) was also a prolific translator of French and Russian literature. His verse translations of Molière's plays are especially admired by readers and are still performed today in theaters around the world. "Wilbur," the critic John Simon once wrote, "makes Molière into as great an English verse playwright as he was a French one." Now, for the first time, all ten of Wilbur's unsurpassed translations of Molière's plays are brought together in two-volume Library of America edition, fulfilling the poet's vision for the translations. The second volume includes the elusive masterpiece, The Misanthrope, often said to occupy the same space in comedy as Shakespeare's Hamlet does in tragedy; the fantastic farce Amphitryon, about how Jupiter and Mercury commandeer the identities of two mortals ; Tartuffe, Molière's biting satire of religious hypocrisy; and The Learned Ladies, like Tarfuffe, a drama of a household turned suddenly upside down. This volume includes the original introductions by Richard Wilbur and a foreword by Adam Gopnik on the exquisite art of Wilbur's translations.

Author : Molière
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miser and Other Plays written by Molière and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1962 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molïre was the stage name of French playwright Jean Baptiste Poquelin, known for satire and controversy.

Author : Molière
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tartuffe written by Molière and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Moliere
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781420975604
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays written by Moliere and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known popularly by his stage name Molière, is regarded as one of the masters of French comedic drama. When Molière began acting in Paris there were two well-established theatrical companies, those of the Hôtel de Bourgogne and the Marais. Joining these theatrical companies would have been impossible for a new member of the acting profession like Molière and thus he performed with traveling troupes of actors in the French provinces. It was during this period that Molière would refine his skills as both an actor and a writer. Eventually his reputation would increase allowing him to return to Paris where he gained the patronage of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, the brother of the King of France, Louis XIV. This collection of Molière's plays includes some of his most notable compositions. In "The Misanthrope", a comedy of errors which satirizes the hypocrisies of French aristocratic society, the author draws upon his bourgeoisie upbringing in 17th century France. "Tartuffe" is the story of Orgon, the head of his family, who has fallen under the influence of Tartuffe, an imposter who pretends to be pious and to speak with divine authority. These plays along with "The School for Wives", "The School for Wives Criticized", and "The Impromptu at Versailles" exhibit the dramatist at his comedic best. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

Author : Jean Racine
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141392096
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four French Plays written by Jean Racine and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'greatest hits' of French classical theatre, in vivid and acclaimed new Penguin translations by John Edmunds and with editorial apparatus by Joseph Harris. 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 (1640), absolute power is explored in ancient Rome, while Molière's The Misanthrope (1666), the only comedy in this collection, sees its anti-hero outcast for his refusal to conform to social conventions. Here also are two key plays by Racine: Andromache (1667), recounting the tragedy of Hector's widow after the Trojan War, and Phaedre (1677), showing a mother crossing the bounds of love with her son. This translation of Phaedra was originally broadcast on Radio Three with a cast including Prunella Scales and Timothy West, and was praised by playwright Harold Pinter. This is the first time it has been published. The edition also includes an introduction by Joseph Harris, genealogical tables, pronunciation guides, critiques and prefaces, as well as a chronology and suggested further reading. After a varied career as an actor, teacher, and BBC TV national newsreader, John Edmunds became the founder-director of Aberystwyth University's department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies. Joseph Harris is Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London and author of Hidden Agendas: Cross-Dressing in Seventeenth-Century France (2005).

Author : Molière
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451529871
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Misanthrope and Other Plays written by Molière and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translates seven plays of Molière and comments upon the background of each dramatization.

Author : Lionel Gossman
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142143086X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Men and Masks written by Lionel Gossman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1963. Molière's plays rank among the great comic achievements in the history of the stage. Yet few attempts have been made to understand them as expressing the historical context of the author's time. Most frequently they have been interpreted from the point of view of purely literary history, while the characters have been seen as universal comic types. Lionel Gossman reappraises Molière's comedy in the light of historical experience and interprets it in terms of the conditions from which it emerged. He brings it into the mainstream of seventeenth-century French literature and shows that Molière was concerned with the same things that concerned Descartes, Corneille, Racine, or Pascal. Five comedies (Amphitryon, Dom Juan, Le Misanthrope, Le Tartuffe, and George Dandin) are studied in the first part of the book. A number of basic structures are found to be common to all of them, and these give the author his point of departure for the second part of the book. In the second part, Gossman examines Molière's position with respect to other major seventeenth-century French writers. The comic vision of Molière, Gossman argues, no less than the tragic vision of Pascal or of Racine, expresses a particular relation to the social structure of the time. The subject matter of Molière's comedy is thus, in the author's view, not universal human nature but the men and women of the society in which Molière lived. Indeed, Gossman goes on to argue that the development of society after Molière made it difficult, and in the end impossible, for later writers to see the world in the comic light that illuminated Molière's writing. Even in certain of Molière's own works, in fact, the comic vision shades into something close to Romantic irony.

Author : Liz Lochhead
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9781854596802
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Misery Guts and Tartuffe written by Liz Lochhead and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new comedy from 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist.'Scotland on Sunday