Results for "Bolt, Ranjit"

Includes the plays The Hypochondriac, George Dandin and Scapin Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, dit Moli re (1622-1673) was originally intended for a career at court. His legal training was to stand him in good stead as his plays often aroused the anger and hatred of many prominent social groups including ... Read More about The Hypochondriac and Other Plays (Oberon Modern Plays)

In the year of the bicentenary of the death of Carlo Goldoni, one of Italy's most brilliant dramatists, two of his greatest comedies are brought to life in Ranjit Bolt's vibrant translations. The Venetian Twins is a classic tale of mistaken identity and the ensuing confusion. The play was given it... Read More about Goldoni: Two Plays: The Venetian Twins; Mirandolina (Oberon Classics)

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 Moli ... Read More about Corneille: Three Masterpieces: The Liar; The Illusion; Le Cid (Oberon Modern Playwrights)

L'Avare (1666) is Moli re's great satire on materialism, a funny yet sophisticated story of cunning, guile and double-dealing, not only by the Miser himself, but also by the Miser's family and servants. First performed at the Festival Theatre, Chichester in 1995, it was revived at the Salisbury Play... Read More about The Miser/The Idiot (Oberon Modern Plays)

Lysistrata, frustrated at the ongoing violence of the civil war, convinces the women of Athens to deny their husbands sex, until a treaty for peace has been signed. Aristophanes is astonishingly ahead of his time in this, probably his greatest and most enduring comedy.... Read More about Lysistrata (Oberon Classics)

When the seemingly perfect Tartuffe ingratiates himself with the wealthy Orgon and his mother Madame Pernelle, he is soon welcomed into their home and into their lives. His combination of charm, respectability and religious authority proves so irresistible that he is eventually promised the hand of ... Read More about Moliere Tartuffe (Oberon Classics)