Labiche & Co: Fourteen One-Acts by a French Comic Master (Applause Books)

ISBN: 1557837570

Author: Shapiro, Norman R.

Condition: New

Product DescriptionNorman R. Shapiro has clearly established himself as the outstanding English interpreter of farce in America. - Robert Scanlan, Harvard UniversityFourteen comic plays of Eugne Marin Labiche, one of the world's most prolific comic playwrights, translated by Norman Shapiro. Among the plays included are Bosom Friends, The Brat, A Bee or Not a Bee, It's All Relative, The Unshakeable Suitor, A Nest-Egg Well Scrambled, and A Slap in the Farce.About the AuthorNorman Shapiro, a professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, has won numerous honors, including the MLA Scaglione Prize for translation, the ALTA Distinguished Book of the Year Award, the Galantiere, and the National Book Award nomination, for his many distinguished translations. Shapiro is a widely published translator of French poetry, theater, and fiction, and is a member of the Academy of American Poets.