“My notion of translation is that you try to bring it back alive. . . . If you take on a text which is somehow appropriate to you and which you may already lo

THE STORY: Gorgibus wants his daughter, Celie, to marry a rich man, Valere, instead of Lelie, whom she loves. Celie, lamenting this turn of events while her bel

The Sicilian or love the painter - Tartuffe or The Impostor - A Doctor in spite of himself - The imaginary invalid id_____________

Translated by Richard Wilbur. Synopsis-Of all of Moliere's plays, The School for Husbands was the second most frequently performed during the playwright's lifet

'Sganarelle, or The Imaginary Cuckold' is a one-act comedy in verse by Molière. The story deals with the consequences of jealousy and hasty assumptions in a fa