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9780151002818

Le Tartuffe

Moliere; Richard Wilbur

ISBN 10: 0151002819 / 0-15-100281-9
ISBN 13: 9780151002818
Publisher: Harcourt
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardcover

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Richard Wilbur's verse translation of TARTUFFE has been acclaimed as a masterpiece in its own right. Set in rhymed couplets, it captures not only the tone of the original but the dramatic energy as well. Not surprisingly, the play in this translation has been performed regularly over the years.
One of Moliere's most popular plays, TARTUFFE, written in 1669, tells the story of Orgon, a rich bourgeois who has become a prude and bigot in his middle age. He is the perfect mark for Tartuffe, a wily opportunist and swindler, who ingratiates himself with Orgon by affecting an air of piety. Soon the gulled Orgon not only hands over his fortune but offers his daughter in marriage to Tartuffe. But Orgon discovers his "spiritual" master's true nature in a most shocking and hilarious fashion.

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"[Wilbur's translation of TARTUFFE] minimizes the...awkward passages and sharpens the humor."

Variety, 01/20/1965

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Tartuffe (ISBN: 9780151002818)
Moliere;Wilbur, Richard

ISBN 10: 0151002819
ISBN 13: 9780151002818

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