Molière : the complete Richard Wilbur translations.

Molière : the complete Richard Wilbur translations.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Molière, 1622-1673, author.
Uniform title:	Plays. Selections. English (Wilbur)
Imprint:	New York, N.Y. : Library of America, [2021] ©2021
Description:	2 volumes (xxiii, 620; xxiii, 466 pages) ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Library of America special publication Library of America special publication.
Subject:	Molière, -- 1622-1673. Wilbur, Richard, -- 1921-2017 -- Interviews. Molière, -- 1622-1673. Wilbur, Richard, -- 1921-2017. Man-woman relationships -- Drama. Courtship -- Drama. Married people -- Drama. Courtship. Man-woman relationships. Manners and customs. Married people. France -- Social life and customs -- 17th century -- Drama. France. Interviews. Comedy plays. Drama.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12698975

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Varying Form of Title:	Complete Richard Wilbur translations.
Other authors / contributors:	Wilbur, Richard, 1921-2017, translator, interviewee (expression) Gopnik, Adam, writer of foreword. Gioia, Dana, interviewer (expression)
ISBN:	9781598537093 1598537091 9781598537079 1598537075 9781598537086 1598537083
Notes:	Translate from the French.
Summary:	"One of the most accomplished American poets of his generation, Richard Wilbur was also an accomplished translator of French and Russian literature. His acclaimed verse renderings of Molière's plays--'among the finest translations of anyone by anyone that we possess' in the words of New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik--are still enchanting audiences around the world. Library of America's deluxe two-volume edition brings together for the first time all ten of Wilbur's Molière translations, a project Wilbur always envisioned. It features Wilbur's original introductions to the plays, a new foreword by Adam Gopnik on the miraculous convergence of Wilbur's 20th-century American and Molière's 17th-century French sensibilities, and a fascinating interview with Wilbur about translating Molière conducted in 2009 by Dana Gioia. This first volume collects Molière's early farces The Bungler, Lover's Quarrels, and Sganarelle, or The Imaginary Cuckhold; the comedies The School for Husbands and The School for Wives, about the efforts of middle-aged men to control their young wives or fiancés, which delighted theatergoers in Molière's seventeenth-century France and continue to do so today; and Don Juan, Molière's retelling of the story of the legendary seducer, performed only briefly in the playwright's lifetime before pious censure forced it to close"--

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