Marivaux Plays: Double Inconstancy;False Servant;Game of Love & Chance;Careless Vows;Feigned Inconstancy;1-act plays (World Classics) - Softcover

Marivaux, Pierre

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9780413185600: Marivaux Plays: Double Inconstancy;False Servant;Game of Love & Chance;Careless Vows;Feigned Inconstancy;1-act plays (World Classics)
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ISBN 10: 0413185605 ISBN 13: 9780413185600
Publisher: Methuen Drama, 1988

Synopsis

Marivaux's light-hearted comedies of love and intrigue are enjoying a vigorous revival



One of the most original of French eighteenth century dramatists, Marivaux wrote over thirty comedies of love and intrigue. This, the only major single-volume selection of Marivaux's plays in English, brings together five full-length and five shorter pieces in lively translations by John Bowen, Michael Sadler, John Walters, Donald Watson and Nicholas Wright.

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About the Authors

John Bowen was born in India in 1924 and reared by aunts and grandparents in the UK. After an uneventful war, he went to Oxford to read History. He began his writing life as a novelist and was recruited to television drama by the director, Peter Wood, then began writing for the stage. His first play, I Love You, Mrs Patterson opened at the St Martin's Theatre in 1964. His second, After The Rain, has been produced all over Europe as well as the USA, Canada and Australia, as has his third the double-bill Little Boxes. Of his other plays, Singles and The Corsican Brothers were first produced at the Greenwich Theatre, The Disorderly Women at Manchester, Florence Nightingale at Canterbury, Heil Caesar at the Midland Arts. He has also adapted Marivaux for the Chichester Arts Festival and Molière for Lancaster.

DR. NICHOLAS WRIGHT, MRCP, PhD is a neuroscientist who researches the brain, technology and security at University College London, Georgetown University, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC, where he also advises the Pentagon Joint Staff. He works with governments and the private sector. He worked as a neurology doctor in London and Oxford, and has published numerous academic papers, which have been covered by the BBC and New York Times. He has appeared on CNN and the BBC, and regularly contributes to outlets like Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Atlantic, and Slate.

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Publisher
Methuen Drama
Publication date
1988
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0413185605
ISBN 13 
9780413185600
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
560
Rating
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