Includes the plays The Liar, The Illusion, Le Cid Pierre Corneille
(1606 - 84), the great seventeenth-century neoclassical dramatist,
wrote over thirty plays during his long and varied career.
Triumphant in both comedy and tragedy, his plays remain at the core
of the repertory. When the young Moliere saw The Liar (Le Menteur),
a delightful chronicle of a pathological liar's adventures in love,
he decided to become a playwright. The Illusion (L'Illusion
Comique) is a fascinating and mysterious tragi-comedy, one of the
first plays to explore consciously the relationship between theatre
and the real world. Le Cid, Corneille's best known play, was
controversial in its day, and led to a resurgence in French drama.
Ranjit Bolt's version of The Liar finds a way of rendering rhyming
couplets which 'no one else from the history of translating for the
theatre has ever done - with some style and without sacrificing the
sense of gallantry that is so essential to the original text.' (BBC
Radio3's Critics Forum.) Both The Liar and The Illusion recently
enjoyed critical and box office success at the Old Vic, reaffirming
Ranjit Bolt as one of the world's foremost translators of drama.
General
| Imprint: |
Oberon Books Ltd
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Oberon Modern Playwrights |
| Release date: |
2008 |
| First published: |
September 2000 |
| Authors: |
Pierre Corneille
|
| Translators: |
Ranjit Bolt
(Author)
|
| Dimensions: |
210 x 130 x 10mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
192 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-84002-124-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-84002-124-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781840021240 |
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