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The School for Wives / The Learned Ladies

The School for Wives concerns an insecure man who contrives to show the world how to rig an infallible alliance by marrying the perfect bride; The Learned Ladies centers on the domestic calamities wrought by a domineering woman upon her husband, children, and household. “Wilbur...makes Molière into as great an English verse playwright as he was a French one” (John Simon, New York). Introductions by Richard Wilbur.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 324
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780156795029
  • Genres
  • plays, drama, classics, fiction, france, theatre, humor, literature
  • Release date
  • 1991