Audiobooks by Richard Wilbur

The Misanthrope

This timeless comedy of manners is considered one of Molière’s most probing and mature works. While it’s still an exemplar of 16th century farce, Molière went beyond his usual comic inventiveness to create a world of rich, complex characters, especially in the cynical title character Alceste, played here by the Tony Award-winning actor Brian Bedford. Lead funding for this production is provided by the Sidney E. Frank Foundation. This recording also includes an interview with Larry F. Norman author of “The Public Mirror: Molière and the Social Commerce of Depiction”. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Brian Bedford as Alceste JD Cullum as Clitandre Sarah Drew as Eliante Martin Jarvis as Philinte Darren Richardson as Basque, Du Bois Susan Sullivan as Arsinoe Nick Toren as Oronte Matt Wolf as Acaste, Guard Bellamy Young as Celimene Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Translated by Richard Wilbur.

Moliere, Molière, Richard Wilbur, Translated By Richard Wilbur (Author), Bedford, Brian, Bellamy Young, Brian Bedford, Darren Richardson, JD Cullum, Jd Cullum, Martin Jarvis, Matthew Wolf, Nick Toren, Sarah Drew, Susan Sullivan (Narrator)

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The School for Husbands and The Imaginary Cuckold

Molière wrote some of the most durable and penetrating comedies of all time. The Imaginary Cuckold and The School for Husbands are two of his grand farces of marriage and misunderstanding, one set in Paris and the other in the provinces. In The School for Husbands, a tyrannical husband-to-be seeks to isolate his ward, while unwittingly carrying her messages of devotion to her lover. In The Imaginary Cuckold an enraged husband imagines his wife is unfaithful, but is reluctant to defend his honor. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: The School for Husbands: Brian Bedford, Emily Bergl, Dakin Matthews, Juliet Mills, Christopher Neame, Lloyd Owen, Alan Shearman, Rhashan Stone and Olivia Williams. The Imaginary Cuckold: Brian Bedford, Dakin Matthews, Christopher Neame, Moira Quirk, Darren Richardson, Carolyn Seymour, Alan Shearman and Joanne Whalley.

Moliere, Molière, Richard Wilbur (Author), Alan Shearman, Brian Bedford, Carolyn Seymour, Christopher Neame, Dakin Matthews, Darren Richardson, Emily Bergl, Joanne Whalley, Juliet Mills, Lloyd Owen, Moira Quirk, Olivia Williams, Rhashan Stone, Various Performers (Narrator)

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The Voice of the Poet: Richard Wilbur

A remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing–a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience–poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare archival recordings and a book with the text of the poetry, a bibliograohy, and commentary by J. D. McClatchy, the poet and critic, who is the editor of The Yale Review. "To hear a poem spoken in the voice of the person who wrote it is not only to witness the rising of words off the page and into the air, but to experience an aural reenactment of exactly what the poet must have heard, if only internally, during the act of composition. THE VOICE OF THE POET recordings deliver these pleasures as they broadcast the pitch and timbre of many of the major voices in twentieth-century poetry."–Billy Collins, U.S,. Poet Lauerate.

Richard Wilbur (Author), Richard Wilbur (Narrator)

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