The miser and other plays
By: Molière ; translated by John Wood and David Coward ; with an introduction and notes by David Coward.
Contributors: Wood, John, 1900-; Coward, David.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London, England; New York, N.Y., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Molière, 1622-1673 -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English.
Description: This volume of Moliere's dramatic commentaries on society presents The Miser, a misguided hero who obsessively disrupts the lives of those around him. The School for Wives is newly translated for this edition and was fiercely denounced as impious and vulgar. Moliere's response to his detractors became The School for Wives Criticized. Even more alarming to critics was his version of Don Juan. In The Hypochondriac, he produced an outrageous expose of medicine.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxviii]-xxix).
Subtitle on cover: A new selection.
Table of contents: title: The school for wives; title: The school for wives criticized; title: Don Juan; title: The miser; title: The hypochondriac.