![]() The second volume collects Molière’s early farces The Bungler, Lovers’ Quarrels, and Sganarelle, or The Imaginary Cuckold the comedies The School for Husbands and The School for Wives, about the efforts of middle-aged men to control their young wives or fiancés, which delighted theatergoers in Molière’s seventeenth-century France and continue to do so today and Don Juan, Molière’s retelling of the story of the legendary seducer, performed only briefly in the playwright’s lifetime before pious censure forced it to close. It features Wilbur’s original introductions to the plays, a new foreword by Adam Gopnik on the miraculous convergence of Wilbur’s 20th-century American and Molière’s 17th-century French sensibilities, and a fascinating interview with Wilbur about translating Molière conducted in 2009 by Dana Gioia. ![]() Library of America’s two-volume edition brings together for the first time all ten of his Molière translations, a project Wilbur always envisioned. ![]() One of the foremost American poets of his generation, Richard Wilbur was also an accomplished translator of French and Russian literature. ![]() Get both volumes in a boxed set and save $20. ![]()
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