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L'Ecole des Femmes (The School for Wives) [French & English Bilingual Edition] - Paragraph by Paragraph Translation (French Edition)
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Author(s)Molière
PublisherWolf Pup Books
ISBN / ASINB004HO5FN2
ISBN-13978B004HO5FN3
Sales Rank1,104,550
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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L'Ecole des Femmes (The School for Wives)
by Molière
The School for Wives belongs to the mature period of Molière. It was first played on the 26th of December, 1662. It may be seen as the complement of The School for Husbands, which it succeeded at an interval of eighteen months, The Bores intervening. The central situations of the two have much in common: the arbitrary and jealous lover, to whom circumstances have given almost the authority of a husband ; the simple ward, rescued from physical constraint by the unfettered cunning of love, and others.
The comedy was fiercely attacked by several, who accused it of being wanting in good taste, sound morality, rules of grammar, and, what was more dangerous, of undermining the principles of religion. Many other authors critically appraised it. Honoré de Balzac considered it as Molière's masterpiece.
Molière played the role of Arnolde.
About the Author
Molière (stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (January 15, 1622 – February 17, 1673) was a French playwright and actor and was one of the greatest masters of comedy in literature. His best-known works include Le Misanthrope (The Misanthrope) (1666), L'École des femmes (The School for Wives) (1662), Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur, (Tartuffe or the Hypocrite) (1664), L'Avare (The Miser) (1668), Le Malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid) (1673), Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (The Bourgeois Gentleman) (1670), and Les Femmes savantes (The Learned Ladies) of 1672.
He was born in Paris. At age 21, he decided to pursue his inclination and joined a theater company. In his 14 years in Paris, Molière wrote 31 plays performed by his company. Molière is considered the creator of modern French comedy. Not only many words or phrases used in Molière's plays are still used in current French, but parts of dialogues have been imprinted into French people’s memory.
Molière died in 1673, at the age of 51.
About the Bilingual Edition
Project Bilingual (A division of Wolf Pup Books) is a continuing project making available great original French writers' texts along with their English translation. This edition, which offers after every original language paragraph its translation, makes both grammar and vocabulary checks as painless as possible. Idiomatic forms that could be overlooked can be easily detected.
Furthermore, large paragraphs have been broken down to much smaller units so that the check is as effortless as possible. We do hope that by reading French writers that defined the language itself or whose work permeated the French culture, you will be able to get the maximum benefit from this language series. Although this edition is not a replacement for traditional methods of learning language, it is a very powerful tool to speed up the process once you have attained the intermediate level and beyond.
Wolf Pup Books
A Bilingual Ebook Publishing Company
by Molière
The School for Wives belongs to the mature period of Molière. It was first played on the 26th of December, 1662. It may be seen as the complement of The School for Husbands, which it succeeded at an interval of eighteen months, The Bores intervening. The central situations of the two have much in common: the arbitrary and jealous lover, to whom circumstances have given almost the authority of a husband ; the simple ward, rescued from physical constraint by the unfettered cunning of love, and others.
The comedy was fiercely attacked by several, who accused it of being wanting in good taste, sound morality, rules of grammar, and, what was more dangerous, of undermining the principles of religion. Many other authors critically appraised it. Honoré de Balzac considered it as Molière's masterpiece.
Molière played the role of Arnolde.
About the Author
Molière (stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (January 15, 1622 – February 17, 1673) was a French playwright and actor and was one of the greatest masters of comedy in literature. His best-known works include Le Misanthrope (The Misanthrope) (1666), L'École des femmes (The School for Wives) (1662), Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur, (Tartuffe or the Hypocrite) (1664), L'Avare (The Miser) (1668), Le Malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid) (1673), Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (The Bourgeois Gentleman) (1670), and Les Femmes savantes (The Learned Ladies) of 1672.
He was born in Paris. At age 21, he decided to pursue his inclination and joined a theater company. In his 14 years in Paris, Molière wrote 31 plays performed by his company. Molière is considered the creator of modern French comedy. Not only many words or phrases used in Molière's plays are still used in current French, but parts of dialogues have been imprinted into French people’s memory.
Molière died in 1673, at the age of 51.
About the Bilingual Edition
Project Bilingual (A division of Wolf Pup Books) is a continuing project making available great original French writers' texts along with their English translation. This edition, which offers after every original language paragraph its translation, makes both grammar and vocabulary checks as painless as possible. Idiomatic forms that could be overlooked can be easily detected.
Furthermore, large paragraphs have been broken down to much smaller units so that the check is as effortless as possible. We do hope that by reading French writers that defined the language itself or whose work permeated the French culture, you will be able to get the maximum benefit from this language series. Although this edition is not a replacement for traditional methods of learning language, it is a very powerful tool to speed up the process once you have attained the intermediate level and beyond.
Wolf Pup Books
A Bilingual Ebook Publishing Company
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