Le Cid ; And, The Liar

Le Cid ; And, The Liar PDF Author: Pierre Corneille
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156035835
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Richard Wilbur's translations of the great French dramas have been a boon to acting troupes, students of French literature and history, and theater lovers. He continues this wonderful work with two plays from Pierre Corneille: Le Cid is Corneille's most famous play, a tragedy set in Seville that illuminates the dangers of being bound by honor and the limits of romantic love; The Liar is a farce, set in France and dealing with love, misperceptions, and downright falsifications, which ends, of course, happily ever after. These two plays, together in one volume, work in perfect tandem to showcase the breadth of Corneille's abilities. Taking us back to the time he portrays as well as the time of his greatest success as a playwright, they remind us that the delights to be found on the French stage are truly ageless.

Le Cid ; And, The Liar

Le Cid ; And, The Liar PDF Author: Pierre Corneille
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156035835
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Book Description
Richard Wilbur's translations of the great French dramas have been a boon to acting troupes, students of French literature and history, and theater lovers. He continues this wonderful work with two plays from Pierre Corneille: Le Cid is Corneille's most famous play, a tragedy set in Seville that illuminates the dangers of being bound by honor and the limits of romantic love; The Liar is a farce, set in France and dealing with love, misperceptions, and downright falsifications, which ends, of course, happily ever after. These two plays, together in one volume, work in perfect tandem to showcase the breadth of Corneille's abilities. Taking us back to the time he portrays as well as the time of his greatest success as a playwright, they remind us that the delights to be found on the French stage are truly ageless.

Corneille: Three Masterpieces

Corneille: Three Masterpieces PDF Author: Pierre Corneille
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1849439672
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Includes the plays The Liar, The Illusion, Le Cid Pierre Corneille (1606–84), the great seventeenth-century neoclassical dramatist, wrote over thirty plays during his long and varied career. Triumphant in both comedy and tragedy, his plays remain at the core of the repertory. When the young Molière saw The Liar (Le Menteur), a delightful chronicle of a pathological liar’s adventures in love, he decided to become a playwright. The Illusion (L’Illusion Comique) is a fascinating and mysterious tragi-comedy, one of the first plays to explore consciously the relationship between theatre and the real world. Le Cid, Corneille’s best known play, was controversial in its day, and led to a resurgence in French drama. Ranjit Bolt’s version of The Liar finds a way of rendering rhyming couplets which ‘no one else from the history of translating for the theatre has ever done...with some style and without sacrificing the sense of gallantry that is so essential to the original text.’ (BBC Radio3’s Critics Forum.) Both The Liar and The Illusion recently enjoyed critical and box office success at the Old Vic, reaffirming Ranjit Bolt as one of the world’s foremost translators of drama.

The Liar

The Liar PDF Author: Pierre Corneille
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822225027
Category : Mistaken identity
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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THE STORY: Newly arrived in Paris, Dorante meets two women in the Tuileries, Clarice and Lucrece. He falsely boasts about his brave military exploits, falling in love with Clarice in the process. But the joke is on Dorante; he believes Clarice to b

The Liar and the Lieutenant in the Plays of Pierre Corneille

The Liar and the Lieutenant in the Plays of Pierre Corneille PDF Author: Ian Dalrymple McFarlane
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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The Liar. A Comedy in Two Acts

The Liar. A Comedy in Two Acts PDF Author: Richard Steele
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781017460919
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Le Cid by Pierre Corneille

Le Cid by Pierre Corneille PDF Author: Pierre Corneille
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Polyeuctus ; The Liar ; Nicomedes

Polyeuctus ; The Liar ; Nicomedes PDF Author: Pierre Corneille
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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The Theatre of Illusion

The Theatre of Illusion PDF Author: Pierre Corneille
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822225034
Category : Fathers and sons
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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THE STORY: THE THEATRE OF ILLUSION is a tale of magic, love, revenge, mistaken identity, and mistaken perspective. Described by the author as a comedy, a caprice and an extravagance, it is widely considered to be Pierre Corneille's masterpiece.

The Liar

The Liar PDF Author: David Ives
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822225119
Category : Courtship
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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THE STORY: Paris, 1643. Dorante is a charming young man newly arrived in the capital, and he has but a single flaw: He cannot tell the truth. In quick succession he meets Cliton, a manservant who cannot tell a lie, and falls in love with Clarice, a

The Cid

The Cid PDF Author: Pierre Corneille
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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