The misanthrope
By: Molière ; translated by Stephen Mulrine
Contributors: Mulrine, Stephen, author
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Description: Alceste, the misanthrope, hates all mankind and despairs of its falseness. He believes that the world could be perfected if only people were more honest with one another. But his candidness soon starts to make him enemies and he becomes the target of malicious rumours. He alienates his love, Célimène, by reproaching her coquettish behaviour and is summoned before the court of marshals to defend his negative opinion on some poetry composed by a powerful noble. Alceste begins to realise that the only way to be left alone is to disengage from society itself - but he struggles to persuade Célimène to go with him and is ultimately left alone.
Notes: This translation previously issued in print: London: Nick Hern Books, 2005.

Translated from the French.