Affection I can endure,
affectation I abhor. Empty phrases,
meaningless gestures of faked good-will.
These affable dispensers of embraces make me ill.
Disgusted with French society where powdered fops gossip in code and bejewelled coquettes whisper behind fans, poet Alceste embarks on a one-man crusade against fakery, frippery and forked tongues. But could the woman he adores be the worst culprit of them all? And in this rarefied world will his revolution prove merely revolting?
Considered by many to be Molière’s best work, The Misanthrope was first performed in 1666 in Paris by the King’s Players. Following the huge successes of Tartuffe and The Hypochondriac master wordsmith Roger McGough once again dips his quill into a Molière classic in this mockery of manners and morals set amid seventeenth-century French aristocracy and written in verse.
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Molière doesn't need email and references to HRT to speak to us – what he really needs is a poet who can wring the dryness out of the 12-syllable Alexandrine line while retaining most of the juicy rhyming couplets. McGough's version is a whimsical delight.
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Following the huge successes of Tartuffe and The Hypochondriac master wordsmith Roger McGough once again dips his quill into The Misanthrope, the comedy many consider to be Molière's best work.
Translated by Liverpool poet Roger McGough, this is one of Molière’s most popular and well-known comedies, and will have a broad appeal to readers of plays and poetry, actors, and students of theatre, – in particular – seventeenth-century drama.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781474260503
Publisert
2017-11-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Methuen Drama
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
96
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