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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know whether Alceste's undeniable appeal and wit motivated me, or whether I showed up detached and read the play as simple affirmation.  Either way, he gives Bartleby a run for his money in my all time favorite barnacles.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA['Why 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 Versailles  This volume brings together four of Moliere's greatest verse comedies covering the best years of his prolific writing career.  Actor, director, and playwright, Moliere (1622-73) was one of the finest and most influential French dramatists,  adept at portraying human foibles and puncturing pomposity. The School for Wives was his first great success; Tartuffe, condemned and banned for five years, his most controversial play.  The Misanthrope is his acknowledged masterpiece, and The Clever Women his last, and perhaps best-constructed, verse piece.  In addition this collection includes a spirited attack on his enemies and a defence of his theatre, in the form of two sparkling short plays, The School for Wives Criticized and The Impromptu at Versailles.  Moliere's prose plays are available in a complementary Oxford World's Classics edition, Don Juan and Other Plays.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The play 'The Misanthrope' itself wasn't that great but the other were funny. The story of the misanthrope is a guy who ends up going into the wild to live with the wolves despite the fact they might eat him because mankind is nothing but a pack of wolves itself except they hide the fact they're tea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53802484">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There is the genius of Moliere himself, the great playwright and impresario who wrote in a complicate rhyming meter; and there is the english translations by Richard Wilbur in rhyming couplets.  It is great gift to english-speaking theatre, and a superior way to present Moliere in english, for which...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51411618">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[This unique volume brings together four of Moliere's greatest verse comedies covering the best years of his prolific writing career.  Actor, director, and playwright, Moliere (1622-73) was one of the finest and most influential French dramatists,  adept at portraying human foibles and puncturing pomposity. The School for Wives was his first great success; Tartuffe, condemned and banned for five years, his most controversial play. The Misanthrope is his acknowledged masterpiece, and The Clever Women his last, and perhaps best-constructed, verse piece.  In addition this collection includes a spirited attack on his enemies and a defense of his theater, in the form of two sparkling short plays, The School for Wives Criticized and The Impromptu at Versailles.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Translated to English, but still in the original poetic form: 12 syllables per line in rhyming couplets.  I Don't know why they left out &quot;The Mider,&quot; except to sell another book.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Including <em>The Misanthrope</em>, <em>The Doctor in Spite of Himself</em>, <em>The Miser</em>, <em>The Would-Be Gentleman</em>, <em>The Mischievous Machinations of Scapin</em>, <em>The Learned Woman</em>, and <em>The Imaginary Invalid</em>, this collection highlights perhaps France's greatest playwright of all time.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just reread the Morris Bishop translation -- a little stiff but fine. (I feel lazy to be rereading it in English, though it's wickedly good in any language.) <br/><br/>It's been years since I'd read it, and I'd rewritten the ending in my mind. The wonderful update that Central Works in Berkeley is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58212821">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<em>The Misanthrope</em>, Moliere's richly sophisticated comic drama is accompanied in this volume by <em>The Would--be Gentleman</em>, another tale of a dangerously deluded and obsessive hero. <em>Tartuffe</em> dares to take on the subject of religious hypocrisy. Also included are <em>Such Foolish Affected Ladies</em> and <em>Those Learned Ladies</em>, both newly translated for this edition. Finally, <em>The Doctor Despite Himself</em> is a hilarious example of Moliere's long-standing vendetta against the medical profession.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dry wit and puns... humor at its best for me! I have loved the works of Moliere since I was twelve. The French originals and the English translations each emphasize different styles of humor with hilarity. In this, the English edition, Moliere's dry wit and pithy sarcasm translate with a very contem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11530606">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A great translation by Richard Wilbur. Perfect for selecting monologues to perform on stage.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What's funny is I read these again because I didn't remember anything about them from high school.  And when I read them, I really, really enjoyed them!  And now I couldn't tell you the first thing about them!  I feel like at some point, someone was hiding in a wardrobe. But doesn't that happen in e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8783228">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My mother took me to a production of <em>Tartuffe</em> when I was a junior in high school. I thought it was hilarious. In fact, I liked the play so much that I bought a t-shirt and wore it regularly for about the next 10 years, or until it fell apart. Moliere continues to be one of my favorite playwrights.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4633615">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Actually, not so much recommending this specific book as much as I am recommending reading everything by the man. I would say if you have never read anything by him, to start with Tartuffe, where you can get an instant appreciation for his (beautifully barbed) insight into human nature. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[LOVE Moliere, he's like a French Oscar Wilde, very witty and satirical. Tartuffe is hilarious, and so is The Imaginary Invalid. Good 'reading' plays, as opposed to plays that are best on stage only. The language in these is so rich that it practically reads like a novel.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoy all of Moliere's work.  He's funny; even being so long ago, the comedy holds.  I saw School for Wives and nearly laughed my head off, especially when the actors over-acted, which I could picture Moliere doing on stage; all part of the satire.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have always been scared to perform Moliere. The trap of sing-song was always scary to me. But reading it (and working through my fears) was really enjoyable. The dialogue and reparte is so amusing and I hope to see it on stage soon.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA['Why 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 Versailles  This volume brings together four of Moliere's greatest verse comedies covering the best years of his prolific writing career.  Actor, director, and playwright, Moliere (1622-73) was one of the finest and most influential French dramatists,  adept at portraying human foibles and puncturing pomposity. The School for Wives was his first great success; Tartuffe, condemned and banned for five years, his most controversial play.  The Misanthrope is his acknowledged masterpiece, and The Clever Women his last, and perhaps best-constructed, verse piece.  In addition this collection includes a spirited attack on his enemies and a defence of his theatre, in the form of two sparkling short plays, The School for Wives Criticized and The Impromptu at Versailles.  Moliere's prose plays are available in a complementary Oxford World's Classics edition, Don Juan and Other Plays.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This wasn't one of my favorites. Perhaps it was the play formate but I didn't understand what was going on at all. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA['Why 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 Versailles  This volume brings together four of Moliere's greatest verse comedies covering the best years of his prolific writing career.  Actor, director, and playwright, Moliere (1622-73) was one of the finest and most influential French dramatists,  adept at portraying human foibles and puncturing pomposity. The School for Wives was his first great success; Tartuffe, condemned and banned for five years, his most controversial play.  The Misanthrope is his acknowledged masterpiece, and The Clever Women his last, and perhaps best-constructed, verse piece.  In addition this collection includes a spirited attack on his enemies and a defence of his theatre, in the form of two sparkling short plays, The School for Wives Criticized and The Impromptu at Versailles.  Moliere's prose plays are available in a complementary Oxford World's Classics edition, Don Juan and Other Plays.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tartuffe's an interesting play-- yet it ends rather abruptly, as if Moliere decided, I need to end this thing. = ]]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great translations of these classic comedies with notes from Wilbur that prove illuminating as well.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was pretty good. I didnt understand some of the language but it was good all in all.]]></body>
    
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