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by Moliere (Author), John Wood (Translator) "Such Foolish Affected Ladies, the first play Moliere wrote after his return to Paris, was staged as an end-piece to an undistinguished royal command performance..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New impression edition (Oct 1969)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140440895
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140440898
  • Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.9 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Translates five plays of Moliere and comments upon the background of each dramatization.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Crimp's version of the Misanthrope is shallow., 24 Jan 1999
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Martin Crimp has taken Moliere's the Misanthrope and turned it into a tale of whiners and one-dimensional characters. The entire play reeks of self-absorption. There is no arch to any of the characters. They each remain the same throughout the entire piece, and no one learns anything in the end of all of it. The play consists of one scene after another of characters who are out to get each other and genuinely do not like one another. It leaves the reader (or audience) with a feeling of hatred towards all of the characters. There is not a single character for a genuine feeling human being to identify with. They are all so self-obsessed and shallow that they do not even think to stop and deal with the problems they have with each other. Even Alceste, who claims to be fed up with all the hypocrisy, leads his own life in hypocrisy because he is too involved in himself to listen to his girlfriend and actually put a little faith in someone besides himself. Crimp needs to go back and revise to have at least one scene in which there is not a major argument. At the moment, there is not a single point at which the audience can relax. They are too caught up in all the tensions between all the characters.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Play, 30 April 2009
By I. M. Knight (Huddersfield, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Misanthrope (Dover Thrift) (Paperback)
This is a superb play which make slight of human folly and hypocrisy and holds some relevance today. It is written in the 17th century this is regarded as Molière's best work. The play is about a man who passes judgment on the hypocrisy of the other protagonists without seeing his folly and inconsistency of judgement.

The 1992 edition, of which I am writing, is the 1876 Henri van Laun translation and has a very basic introduction and no notes to text.
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