The Misanthrope

ISBN-13: 9781472510716 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 96 str.

Moliere

Opis

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 Moliere'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 Moliere classic in this mockery of manners and morals set amid seventeenth-century French aristocracy and written in verse.

Recenzje

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. Alfred Hickling Guardian 20130221

O autorze

Molière (born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in 1622) was a French playwright and actor-manager. Molière'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. Roger McGough is one of the pre-eminent poets writing today. As one of the Liverpool poets alongside Brian Patten and Adrian Henri, he helped create the art of performance poetry and is now in huge demand for his performances, and his new collections and anthologies are eagerly awaited. He regularly writes and performs on the television and radio. He is also an accomplished playwright, with two of his adaptations of Molière's plays published by Methuen Drama. Roger lives with his family in West London., Roger McGough, CBE is one of the pre-eminent poets writing today. As one of the Liverpool poets alongside Brian Patten and Adrian Henri, he helped create the art of performance poetry and is now in huge demand for his performances, with his new collections and anthologies being eagerly awaited. He regularly writes and performs on the television and radio. He is also an accomplished playwright, with two of his previous adaptations of Molière's plays published by Methuen Drama. He is an honorary fellow of Liverpool John Moores University and President of the Poetry Society. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2004.