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The School for Wives and the Learned Ladies, by Molière
Two Comedies in an Acclaimed Translation.
Richard Wilbur
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · November 15, 1991
Reading lane: 18th-Century French Fiction
The School for Wives concerns an insecure man who contrives to show the world how to rig an infallible alliance by marrying the perfect bride; The Learned Ladies centers on the domestic calamities wrought by a domineering woman upon her husband, children, and household. “Wilbur...makes Molière into as great an English verse playwright as he was a French one” (John Simon, New York).
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Why This Clicks
Marriage, Molière Style
Molière’s domestic comedies arrive in Richard Wilbur’s English verse, where marital schemes meet household disorder.
Come here for
- Two comedies with marriage and household life in comic disarray
- Molière rendered in English verse by Richard Wilbur
Expect
- An insecure husband’s plan for an infallible alliance
- A domineering woman’s domestic calamities
Book Details
- Authors
- Richard Wilbur
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- November 15, 1991
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- 18th-Century French Fiction · Italian Plays
- Reading lane
- 18th-Century French Fiction
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About This Book
The School for Wives concerns an insecure man who contrives to show the world how to rig an infallible alliance by marrying the perfect bride; The Learned Ladies centers on the domestic calamities wrought by a domineering woman upon her husband, children, and household. “Wilbur...makes Molière into as great an English verse playwright as he was a French one” (John Simon, New York). Introductions by Richard Wilbur.
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