{"product_id":"9781914228889","title":"Chatsky \u0026 Miser, Miser! Two Plays by Anthony Burgess","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnthony Burgess was an energetic writer and composer, whose work\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003efor the stage is widely admired. In Two Plays, we see him tackling\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003emajor monuments of French and Russian theatre: The Miser by\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMolière and Chatsky by Alexander Griboyedov.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMiser, Miser! is a bold reworking of Molière's classic comedy of\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1668. Harpagon the miser is hoarding a pile of gold, which he has\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eburied in his garden. As he tries to sell off his daughter, catch himself\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ea beautiful young bride and outwit his scheming household of clever\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eservants, the comedy of errors intensifies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough the original French play is written in prose, Burgess\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eremakes it in a mixture of verse and prose, in the style of his famous\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eadaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac. This translation, discovered in the\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eauthor's archive, is the work of a writer at the height of his powers,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ereinventing Molière for modern audiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChatsky, subtitled 'The Importance of Being Stupid' is another verse\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ecomedy. The theme is that of the intellectual hero who rebels\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eagainst the smug, philistine society in which he finds himself. First\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eperformed in 1833, Griboyedov's play was so heavily cut by Russian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ecensors that it was barely recognisable. The play is a virtuoso vehicle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003efor male actors, and the source of many famous quotations. It is\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ealso notoriously difficult to translate. In Chatsky, Burgess remakes a\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eclassic Russian play in the spirit of Oscar Wilde. It is a great feast of\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003elanguage and invective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe complete texts of both plays are published here for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo Plays confirms Anthony Burgess's reputation as a gifted writer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003efor the stage, and as a translator of great wit and sophistication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMISER, MISER! CASTING: 7 men, 3 women\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCHATSKY CASTING: 9 men, 7 women\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Salamander Street Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45649466982479,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":768.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9781914228889","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}