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Tartuffe
Steiner Prudence
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Description for Tartuffe
Presents a prose translation of Moliere's great comedy that remains close to the original French. This edition also includes an introductory essay, notes, and translations of Moliere's three appeals to the king. Translator(s): Steiner, Prudence L. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 147 x 13. Weight in Grams: 292.
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 Molière'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.
Product Details
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
124
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Cambridge, MA, United States
ISBN
9780872209510
SKU
V9780872209510
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About Steiner Prudence
Roger W. Herzel is Professor Emeritus, Department of Theater and Drama, Indiana University, Bloomington. Prudence L. Steiner took her Ph.D. at Harvard University, where she served as Lecturer and Director of the Harvard Extension School Writing Program.
Reviews for Tartuffe
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 ... Read more