Tartuffe, by Moliere by Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Moliere
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Book Reviews of Tartuffe, by Moliere
Book Review: A peerless translation
Summary: 5 Stars
Pulizter-winning poet Richard Wilbur has chosen to dedicate years of his life to making worthy English translations of the plays of Moliere with the idea no one will have to again for a hundred years. His confidence in his own translations is enormous, and correct. This is Moliere in the language of today -- direct, witty, insightful, hilarious. Tartuffe sends up hypocrisy, religious and otherwise, in a bourgeois farce of escalating absurdity. This particular translation won the prestigious Bollingen Prize. The only thing going against it is that you can essentially get two-for-the-price-of-one by getting Wilbur's Tartuffe and The Misanthrope together in another book. That book even contains the same introduction. But why stop there? I can't praise Wilbur's Molieres highly enough. If you like The Misanthrope and Tartuffe, check out the other ones, like The School for Wives and Amphitryon, two personal favorites.
Book Review: Tartuffe by Moliere -A Witty play made even better by Wilbur
Summary: 5 Stars
To whom it may concern;
My name is Shelby, and i am a colege student in IL. I have been doing Theatre all my life, and during my senior year of high school, i was lucky enough to land a role in Tartuffe, By Moliere (the Richard Wilbur translation). upon preparing for my audition for Tartuffe, i had the opportunity to read many other versions of the script. To all directors, teachers, or whom ever is looking for a good laugh, i would choose Tartuffe. This delicious play is perfect for high school students (it has the perfect ammount of Character, and is easy to memorize because of the rhyming couplets) or adult theatre productions. If you are just interested in reading Tartuffe, i would, of course, reccomend it, but i also feel that you will not get the full "feel" of the play because you cannot get the humor or irony of some of the jokes. Much luck to all!
Book Review: Great Masterpieces of humanity
Summary: 5 Stars
Tartuffe is, without doubt, one of the works responsible for placing Molière alongside to the geniuses of Aeschilus and Shakespeare. Here, the human imposture and hipocrasy is not just seen as a way for corrupting others lives, but of also corrupting the own love for all which really matters in life. Tartuffe surpasses the means of a simple comedy of ways to become itself a drama of human being; every time someone laughs of Tartuffe, he/she must do it recognizing that something has to be changed so that he/she does not become laughable.Book Review: Insane, Edgy, Delicious
Summary: 5 Stars
I dropped in here to see how Monsieur Moliere was doing with the online reviewers, and was glad to see that most people are still delighted by this masterpiece -- particularly in Richard Wilbur's supernaturally brilliant translation. I've been using this translation in a dramatic lit course for several years, and all of the best and brightest students LOVE the thing. The plot is insane, the satire is edgy, and the couplets are delicious. Buy it today; read it as soon as it arrives.Book Review: A simply delightful read!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was required to read this book for a course I am taking at Univeristy. I found Tartuffe to be a simply delightful and fun read. The (rhyming) prose is translated well, although I question if the original meter was consistent throughout the play or not. The english meter is not. Tartuffe pokes fun at the neo-classical era religious hypocrite. Even today, hundreds of years after the writing of this book I still found myself laughing at Moliere's jokes and wit.