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Moliere Volume 1

內容簡介

內容簡介 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 Moliere’s plays are especially admired by readers and are still performed today in theatres around the world. ’Wilbur,’ the critic John Simon once wrote, ’makes Moliere 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 Moliere’s plays are brought together in two-volume Library of America edition, fulfilling the poet’s vision for the translations. This first volume comprises Moliere’s delightful early farces The Bungler, Lover’s Quarrels, and The Imaginary Cuckhold, or Sganarelle; the comedies The School for Husbands and The School for Wives, about the efforts of middle-aged men to control their young wives or fiances, which so delighted female theatre goers in Moliere’s seventeenth-century France; and Don Juan, Moliere’s retelling of the Don Juan story, performed only briefly in the playwright’s lifetime before pious censure forced it to close and not part of the repertoire of the Comedie-Francaise until 1847. This volume includes the original introductions by Richard Wilbur and an introduction by Adam Gopnik on the exquisite art of Wilbur’s translations.

作者介紹

作者介紹 MoliereMolière, born Jean-Bapiste Popquelin in 1622, is one of the greatest writers of French and European literature. His comedies are still performed today around the world. One of the most accomplished American poets of his generation.Richard WilburRichard Wilbur (1921-2017) was also a prolific translator of French and Russian literature, including the plays of Molière and Racine, and the poetry of Valéry, Villon, Baudelaire, and Akhmatova. He was U.S. Poet Laureate in 1987-88 and was the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry, the National Book Award for Poetry, the Wallace Stevens Award, the Frost Medal, and the Bollingen Prize.

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