The Heir Apparent (Rediscovery)

Jean-Francois Regnard

ISBN 10: 1575258099 / ISBN 13: 9781575258096

Verlag: Smith & Kraus, 2011

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From the New York Times: Mr. Ives, a playwright whose tasty psychodrama, "Venus in Fur," opens on Broadway next month after an acclaimed run at the Classic Stage Company in New York two seasons ago, has lately been pursuing a fruitful sideline in retailoring French classics in more contemporary cuts. Mr. Ives's "School for Lies," an inspired reworking of Molière's "Misanthrope," was a popular hit for Classic Stage last spring. His similarly acclaimed version of "The Liar," a 1634 play by Corneille, was seen at the Shakespeare Theater in Washington last season. Now he has dug more deeply into the library stacks to resurrect a comedy about money lust by a lesser-known French playwright, Jean-François Regnard's 1708 play, "The Heir Apparent." Mr. Ives's French dictionary and his rhyming dictionary are by now probably similarly tattered, since the new translation, like that of "The School for Lies," is rendered in niftily rhymed couplets that evoke the style of the original. Once again M

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Titel: The Heir Apparent (Rediscovery)
Verlag: Smith & Kraus
Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Very Good