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In brilliant rhymed couplets, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur renders two of seventeenth-century French playwright Moliere's comic masterpieces into English, capturing not only the form and spirit of the language but also its substance.The Misanthrope is a searching... Read Full Overview

Two classic plays translated by a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet into English verse. In The Misanthrope, society itself is indicted and the impurity of its critic's motives is exposed. In Tartuffe, the bigoted and prudish Orgon falls completely under the power of the wily Tartuffe... Read Full Overview

The Misanthrope is a play written by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known as Moliere, in 1666. The play is a satire of French society in the 17th century and centers around the character of Alceste, a man who despises the hypocrisy and insincerity of the people around him. Despite... Read Full Overview