Marivaux Plays: Double Inconstancy;False Servant;Game of Love & Chance;Careless Vows;Feigned Inconstancy;1-act plays

by Pierre Marivaux, Donald Watson, John Bowen, John Walters, Michael Sadler

Overview

Marivaux's light-hearted comedies of love and intrigue are enjoying a vigorous revival

One of the most original of French eighteenth century dramatists, Marivaux wrote over thirty comedies of love and intrigue. This, the only major single-volume selection of Marivaux's plays in English, brings together five full-length and five shorter pieces in lively translations by John Bowen, Michael Sadler, John Walters, Donald Watson and Nicholas Wright.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780413185600
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/09/1988
Series:	World Classics
Pages:	560
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.24(d)

About the Author

John Bowen was born in India in 1924 and reared by aunts and grandparents in the UK. After an uneventful war, he went to Oxford to read History. He began his writing life as a novelist and was recruited to television drama by the director, Peter Wood, then began writing for the stage. His first play, I Love You, Mrs Patterson opened at the St Martin's Theatre in 1964. His second, After The Rain, has been produced all over Europe as well as the USA, Canada and Australia, as has his third the double-bill Little Boxes. Of his other plays, Singles and The Corsican Brothers were first produced at the Greenwich Theatre, The Disorderly Women at Manchester, Florence Nightingale at Canterbury, Heil Caesar at the Midland Arts. He has also adapted Marivaux for the Chichester Arts Festival and Molière for Lancaster.

Table of Contents

Double Inconstancy;False Servant;Game of Love & Chance;Careless Vows;Feigned Inconstancy;1-act plays