{"product_id":"9781598537093","title":"Moliere: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor the 400th anniversary of Moliere's birth, all of Richard Wilbur's unsurpassed translations of Molière's plays—themselves towering achievements in English verse—are brought together for the first time in this two-volume gift set.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne 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 around the world. \"Wilbur,\" the critic John Simon 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 boxed set, fulfilling the poet's vision for the translations. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first volume comprises Molière's delightful early farces \u003ci\u003eThe Bungler\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLovers' Quarrels\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Imaginary Cuckhold, or Sganarelle\u003c\/i\u003e; the comedies \u003ci\u003eThe School for Husbands\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe School for Wives\u003c\/i\u003e, about the efforts of middle-aged men to control their young wives or fiancés, which so delighted female theater goers in Moliere's seventeenth-century France; and \u003ci\u003eDon Juan\u003c\/i\u003e, Molière's retelling of the timeless story, performed only briefly in the playwright's lifetime before pious censure forced it to close and not part of the repertoire of the Comédie-Française until 1847.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe second volume includes the elusive masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Misanthrope\u003c\/i\u003e, often said to occupy the same space in comedy as Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e does in tragedy; the fantastic farce \u003ci\u003eAmphitryon\u003c\/i\u003e, about how Jupiter and Mercury commandeer the identities of two mortals ; \u003ci\u003eTartuffe\u003c\/i\u003e, Molière's biting satire of religious hypocrisy; and \u003ci\u003eThe Learned Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e, like \u003ci\u003eTarfuffe\u003c\/i\u003e, a drama of a household turned suddenly upside down. These volumes include the original introductions by Richard Wilbur and a foreword by Adam Gopnik on the exquisite art of Wilbur's translations.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42662318702653,"sku":"9781598537093","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781598537093_p0.jpg?v=1771574322","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781598537093","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}