Ebook: The Misanthrope And Tartuffe, By Molière
Author: Richard Wilbur
- Tags: Performing Arts, Nonfiction, DRA004010, PER011030
- Year: 1965
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Language: English
- epub
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 Review
"Richard Wilbur's translation of Tartuffe is a continuous delight from beginning to end."—Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet Richard Eberhart
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 Review
"Richard 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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