Molière - Böcker

Molière tillhör världsdramatiken största författare. Hans komedier har spelats flitigt varje år alltsedan de skrevs. Bakom det komiska ryms dock en kritik av människans laster och hennes överdrivna respekt för myndigheter, auktoritet och börd. Här...

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Molière - egentligen Jean-Baptiste Poquelin [1622-1673] - var en fransk dramatiker, författare, skådespelare och regissör, kanske mest känd för komedier som Den girige , Den inbillade sjuke , Misantropen och Don Juan . Tartuffe är en av den fransk...

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Tartuffe är ett av franskklassicismens portalverk. Tillsammans med filosofer som Descartes var dess författare Molière en del av den katolska världens inre reformation och bröt väg för upplysningens intåg. En rik och ansedd borgare, Orgon, har bli...

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Combining the traditional elements of comedy, this title presents plays such as "The Miser", "The Hypochondriac", "The School for Wives", "The School for Wives Criticized" and "Don Juan".

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Features the plays "Misanthrope", "Such Preposterously Precious Ladies", "Tartuffe", "A Doctor Despite Himself", "The Would-Be Gentleman", and "Those Learned Ladies".

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In the seventeenth century, Moli re raised comedy to the pitch of great art and, three centuries later, his plays are still a source of delight. He created a new synthesis from the major comic traditions at his disposal. This collection demonstrat...

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Moli re combined all the traditional elements of comedy - wit, slapstick, spectacle and satire - to create richly sophisticated and enduringly popular dramas. The Miser is the story of Harpagon, a mean-spirited old man who becomes obsessed with ma...

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The renowned French playwright Molière'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 titl...

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'Why does he write those ghastly plays that the whole of Paris flocks to see? And why does he paint such lifelike portraits that everyone recognizes themselves?' Moliere, The Impromptu at Versailles This volume brings together four of Moliere's gr...

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'Why does he write those ghastly plays that the whole of Paris flocks to see? And why does he paint such lifelike portraits that everyone recognizes themselves?' Moliere, The Impromptu at Versailles This volume brings together four of Moliere's gr...

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'Why does he write those ghastly plays that the whole of Paris flocks to see? And why does he paint such lifelike portraits that everyone recognizes themselves?' Moliere, The Impromptu at Versailles This volume brings together four of Moliere's gr...

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Contains: Don Juan, Precious Provincials, The Reluctant Doctor, George Dandin, The Miser, The Would-be Gentleman, Scapin the Schemer Since the second half of the seventeenth century, when Moli`re composed and performed his comedies, scarcely a dec...

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His biting satire, witty dialogue, and irreverent staging have made him a favorite with theatergoers for four centuries. This Norton Critical Edition of Molière's most controversial and most often-performed play is based on Constance Congdon's acc...

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This volume brings together five of Moliere's finest and best-known plays. The three verse plays, The Misanthrope, Tartuffe and The School for Wives, have been skilfully turned into sparkling English couplets by Richard Wilbur's 'brilliant rhymed ...

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Contains five works from the classical period of French theatre - "The Cid", "Phedra", "Tartuffe", "The Lottery of Love" and "The Marriage of Figaro".

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The foolish "e;Jordan"e; voice will start with confidence and say: "e;Go ahead with what you like, I will not cost myself to tear my robe to separate your between you."e; This comic scene occurs in the midst of a group of professor...

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The play in our hands exceeds mere meanings and medicines, as it draws for us the character "e;Argan"e; with all vitality and comedy. He is a rich man who suffers from persistent health disorders and aspires to find the perfect treatment t...

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Originally published in 1883, and reprinted on numerous occasions, this Cambridge edition of Molière's classic comédie-ballet provides the original French text, together with an introduction written in English, and English summaries for each of th...

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Don Juan, the "e;Seducer of Seville,"e; originated as a hero-villain of Spanish folk legend, is a famous lover and scoundrel who has made more than a thousand sexual conquests. One of Moliere's best-known plays, Don Juan was written while ...

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Wilbur is at the peak of his form in this stellar translation of an unusual Moliere play-populated with Greeks and Greco-Roman gods and flavored with the essences of vaudeville, fan-tasy, high comedy, farce, and even opera. Afterword by Richard Wi...

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A reworking of Moliere's comic play. Alceste abhors hypocrisy and the well-rehearsed, sycophantic pleasantries of the chattering classes. He tells the truth, even it hurts. Alceste is in love with Jennifer (Celimene), but thinks she's in love with...

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Orgon is the man who has everything. Money, power, a beautiful family. But lately he's been questioning the point of it all. When he invites Tartuffe into his perfect household, he unleashes a whirlwind of deception and seduction that threatens ev...

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