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The Misanthrope
Molière
Misanthrope, The
by Jean-baptiste Moliere, Constance Congdon
Synopsis
“Love is all bad sonnets, big fluffy beds and silly preening in the first half of THE MISANTHROPE...
Then the gloves come off...and the characters are fighting for their lives.
Molière's 1666 comedy about yearning for truth and love in a world of self-serving hypocrites never falls out of fashion....
The play is recast here in a tonic new verse version by Constance Congdon...
This is a world...where words do all the damage.
Playwright Congdon (TALES OF THE LOST FORMICANS) has done an exemplary job of making that language count.
Her rhymes are not as elegant as those in Richard Wilbur's standard verse translation, and that's the point.
There's a lean angularity in her lines, a flashing sense of purpose.”Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle
Publication
Publisher Samuel French
Misanthrope, The is a comedy play written by Jean-baptiste Moliere and published by Samuel French .
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