Product Description: The Liar by Pierre Corneille,translated by Richard Wilbur. Directed by Martin Jarvis. In this classic farce, a young man pretends to be a war hero to impress a pretty girl. As his lies progress, so do his troubles with hilarious results...read more

Product Description: Razor-sharp wit inflames a competitive game of survival in the salons of 17th century France where, in this world of "finest appearances," one man's blunt honesty shatters his society's delicate web of manners. Often considered to be Moliere's HAMLET, THE MISANTHROPE is a wickedly scathing satire...read more

Product Description: Pierre Corneille, in his original dedication for The Theatre of Illusion, described the play as a "strange monster." He first called these five acts a comedy; later, a "caprice" and an "extravagant trifle." Written in 1635 and staged in 1636, the play vanished from the stage for the next three hundred years—to be revived in 1937 by Louis Jouvet and the Comédie Française...read more

Product Description: Book by Corneille, Pierre

Product Description: The Liar by Pierre Corneille,translated by Richard Wilbur. Directed by Martin Jarvis. In this classic farce, a young man pretends to be a war hero to impress a pretty girl. As his lies progress, so do his troubles with hilarious results...read more

Product Description: “Richard Wilbur’s translations of classic French drama are among the undiscovered treasure of our recent literature.”–The Hudson ReviewMolière’s late, elegant comedy, based on Plautus’ Roman version, alludes to the love affairs of the French king...read more

Product Description: Richard Wilbur’s translations of the great French dramas have been a boon to acting troupes, students of French literature and history, and theater lovers. He continues this wonderful work with two plays from Pierre Corneille: Le Cid is Corneille’s most famous play, a tragedy set in Seville that illuminates the dangers of being bound by honor and the limits of romantic love; The Liar is a farce, set in France and dealing with love,misperceptions, and downright falsifications, which ends, of course, happily ever after...read more

Rhyming text gives many examples of short words found within longer ones such as 'pig' in 'spigot' and 'ant' in 'pantry.'

Rhyming text gives many examples of short words found within longer ones such as 'pig' in 'spigot' and 'ant' in 'pantry'. By the author of Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences. Children's BOMC. Reprint.

Brings together five of Moliere's finest and best-known plays - the three verse plays: 'The Misanthrope', 'Tartuffe' and 'The School for Wives', and the two prose comedies: 'The Miser' and 'The Hypochondriac'.