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    Tartuffe by Moliere, ;

    Series: Hackett Classics;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
    • Date of Publication 30 September 2008
    • Number of Volumes Hardcover trade binding

    • ISBN 9780872209510
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages160 pages
    • Size 215x9x139 mm
    • Weight 292 g
    • Language English
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    Long description:

    Prudence Steiner's lively prose translation of Moliere's great comedy remains close to the original French, while casting the speech of characters in a slightly compressed and formalized way that comes very close to the original effect created by Moli?¨re's verse. This edition includes translations of Moliere's three appeals to the king, as well as an introductory essay by Roger Herzel, which discusses Moliere's life, Tartuffe and the comic tradition, and the setting, language and style of the play.


    The new Steiner Tartuffe offers welcome relief from all the rhymed translations that make Moliere sound like a third-rate Restoration poet while creating the (false) impression that verbal dexterity and wit trump all other values in the great comic playwright's dramaturgy. Steiner's crisp, lucid prose--her adroitly balanced sentences are especially effective at conveying the slippery rhetoric of Tartuffe's seductions--unfolds the plot and characters of Moliere's play with an unaccustomed clarity, presenting the ideological clashes of the play with a bluntness many other translations attenuate. Roger Herzel's Introduction is well-focused for those encountering Moli?re for the first time and informed throughout by his own excellent scholarship. --Jim Carmody, University of California, San Diego

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