Description: The renowned French playwright Molière's most masterful and most frequently performed play, skillfully translated into English by the Pulitzer Prize-winning translator Richard Wilbur.
Brief description:
RICHARD WILBUR, one of America's most beloved poets, has served as poet laureate of the United States. He has received the National Book Award, two Pulitzer Prizes, the National Arts Club medal of honor for literature, and a number of translation prizes, including two Bollingen Prizes and two awards from PEN.
Review Quotes:
"Mr. Wilbur has given us, with great fidelity and charm, the nearest thing to Molière that we have." - Jackson Matthews, New York Review of Books
"Richard Wilbur's translation of Tartuffe is a continues delight from beginning to end." - Richard Eberhart