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The Figaro Trilogy
Oxford University Press, UK 2003; US$ 8.99The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro and The Guilty Mother were the first plays to use a set of recurring characters who develop over time. They chronicle the slide of the ancien regime into revolution and Figaro was seen as a threat to the establishment. The impertinent, bustling servant was appropriated by Mozart and Rossini for their own... more...
Lovers' Quarrels
Theatre Communications Group 2012; US$ 14.95Richard Wilbur's English verse rendering of Molière's complex comedy. more...
The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays
OUP Oxford 2001; US$ 8.99Why 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 VersaillesThis volume brings together four of Moliere's greatest verse comedies covering the best years of his prolific writing career. Actor, director, and... more...
The Bungler
Theatre Communications Group 2012; US$ 14.95Richard Wilbur's brilliant translation of Molière's early farce. more...
School for Husbands and The Imaginary Cuckold, or Sganarelle
Theatre Communications Group 2012; US$ 14.95Richard Wilbur's world-renowned verse translations of Molière's brilliant farces. more...
Amphitryon
Theatre Communications Group 2012; US$ 14.95One of Wilbur's world-renowned translations of Molière's brilliant farces. more...
Gedächtniskonzepte der Literaturwissenschaft
De Gruyter 2005; US$ 182.00In this volume, concepts of memory from literary studies are systematically recorded for the first time and presented from an historical, theoretical and methodological aspect. The aim is to locate the discussion in the subject discipline within the transdisciplinary discussion of memory and recollection. more...
Balzac's Omelette
Haus Publishing 2013; US$ 9.95Full of surprise and insights, Balzac?s Omelette invites you to taste anew French literature and cuisine. more...
Letters From Prison
Constable & Robinson 2012; US$ 5.82The 1990s have seen a resurgence of interest in the Marquis de Sade, with several biographies competing to put their version of his life story before the public. But Sadean scholar Richard Seaver takes us directly to the source, translating Sade's prison correspondence. Seaver's translations retain the aristocratic hauteur of Sade's prose, which still... more...
Charles d'Orléans in England (1415-1440)
Boydell & Brewer 2000; US$ 99.00Charles, duc d'Orléans, prince and poet, was a captive in England for twenty-five years following the battle of Agincourt. The studies in this volume, by European and American scholars, focus on his life and actions during that time, and show him as a serious and learned reader, a cunning political figure (accomplished in the skills that would impress... more...









