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.
In these two masterpieces of 17th-century theater, Molière's satirical genius takes aim at the follies of love, marriage, and intellectual pride.
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