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1) L.A. Theatre Works Presents: The Liar

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In this classic farce, a young man pretends to be a war hero to impress a pretty girl. As his lies progress, so do his troubles – with hilarious results. Playwright Pierre Corneille's comedy of manners is considered a groundbreaking work which influenced contemporaries such as the young Molière. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production, starring Tara Lynne Barr, Janine Barris, Sue Cremin, Danny Mann, Christopher Neame, John Sloan, Mark Sullivan,...

2) Collected poems, 1943-2004

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Wilbur, Richard

Pub. Date

c2004

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xvi, 585 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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From the Publisher: Over the course of his distinguished sixty-year career, Richard Wilbur has written seventeen collections of poetry, four children's books, and numerous works in prose and translations. This comprehensive collection presents Wilbur's poems, including several new and never before published. In trackless woods, it puzzled me to find; Four great rock maples seemingly aligned, As if they had been set out in a row; Before some house...

3) New and collected poems

Author

Wilbur, Richard

Pub. Date

1989, c1988

Physical Desc

xv, 393 p. ; 24 cm.

4) The catbird's song: prose pieces, 1963-1995

Author

Wilbur, Richard

Pub. Date

c1997

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xii, 242 p. ; 21 cm.

5) The school for wives: comedy in five acts, 1662

Author

Molière

Pub. Date

[1971]

Physical Desc

xiv, 146 p. illus. 22 cm.

6) Poems and poetics

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Poe, Edgar Allan

Pub. Date

c2003

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xxv, 179 p. : port. ; 20 cm.

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Explores the philosophical and symbolic significance of Poe's most mature works, complementing the collection with a selection of essays on the writer's poetic goals.

7) The School for Wives

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Moliere

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An older man tries to turn a young girl into the perfect wife by sending her to a convent until she is seventeen years old. To his frustration, the girl falls in love with another man after she returns. From the French master of comedy, The School for Wives is considered Moliere's masterpiece

8) The School for Husbands and The Imaginary Cuckold

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Moliere

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Molière wrote some of the most durable and penetrating comedies of all time. The Imaginary Cuckold and The School for Husbands are two of his grand farces of marriage and misunderstanding, one set in Paris and the other in the provinces. In The School for Husbands, a tyrannical husband-to-be seeks to isolate his ward, while unwittingly carrying her messages of devotion to her lover. In The Imaginary Cuckold an enraged husband imagines his wife is...

9) The Bungler

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Moliere

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In 17th Century Sicily, a clever valet named Mascarille tries to help his boss Lélie win the girl of his dreams -- only to find that Lélie is a monumental dunce who ruins every one of his intricate schemes. Undaunted, Mascarille invents progressively wilder plots, only to see his best-laid plans go very awry in Molière's The Bungler. Translated by Richard Wilbur. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Richard Easton as Mascarille;...

10) The Misanthrope

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Moliere

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This timeless comedy of manners is considered one of Molière's most probing and mature works. While it's still an exemplar of 16th century farce, Molière went beyond his usual comic inventiveness to create a world of rich, complex characters, especially in the cynical title character Alceste, played here by the Tony Award-winning actor Brian Bedford. This recording also includes an interview with Larry F. Norman author of “The Public Mirror: Molière...