Tartuffe, By Molio?re

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Tartuffe, By Molio?re
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Richard Wilbur
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:176
Category/GenrePlays, playscripts
ISBN/Barcode 9780156881807
ClassificationsDewey:842.4
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc
Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
Publication Date 10 January 1968
Publication Country United States

Description

The renowned French playwright Moliere's most masterful and most frequently performed play, skillfully translated into English by the Pulitzer Prize-winning translator Richard Wilbur. The rich bourgeois Orgon has become a bigot and prude. The title character, a wily opportunist and swindler, affects sancity and gains complete ascendancy over Ogron, who not only attemps to turn over his fortune but offers his daughter in marriage to his "spiritual" guide. Translated and with an Introduction by Richard Wilbur.

Author Biography

Moliere (1622-1673), born Jean-Baptise Poquelin, was a widely renowned French poet, playwright, and actor. RICHARD WILBUR, one of America's most beloved poets, has served as poet laureate of the United States. He has received the National Book Award, two Pulitzer Prizes, the National Arts Club medal of honor for literature, and a number of translation prizes, including two Bollingen Prizes and two awards from PEN.