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Le Cid; and, The liar
By Wilbur, Richard & Corneille, Pierre
- ISBN
- 978-0-15603-583-5
- Publisher
- Boston : Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on July 15, 2009
Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning poet Wilbur has extended his string of supple translations with these two very different plays. Le Cid (1636) is an epic and heroic story of a couple bound by love and driven apart by honor. The Liar (1643) is a farce, full of wit, charm, and sparkling repartee. Wilbur's closest stylistic competitor is Vincent John Cheng's 1987 translation of Le Cid, now out of ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
