Moliere Five Plays: The School for Wives; Tartuffe; The Misanthrope; The Miser; The Hypochondriac

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This volume brings together five of Molire's finest and best-known plays. The three verse plays, The Misanthrope, Tartuffe and The School for Wives, have been skilfully turned into sparkling English couplets by Richard Wilbur's 'brilliant rhymed translation' Sunday Telegraph; while the playwright Alan Drury has translated the two prose comedies, The Miser and The Hypochondriac ('a cherubically funny translation' Independent).

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Molire (born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in 1622) was a French playwright and actor-manager. Molire's main achievement was in raising the standard of French comedy to a level commensurate with French tragedy. In doing so he created a body of work that would continue to be performed for the next three centuries, providing generation after generation of performers with some of their finest roles.