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    Amphitryon
    Amphitryon
    Amphitryon
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    Amphitryon

    By A. R. (Alfred Rayney) Waller and Molière

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1973
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    • 5/5
      Richard Wilbur’s Molière translations are all pure pleasure to read, and Amphitryon is no exception. It is set in Ancient Greece (although the characters all have Roman names) and provides a comic/farcical version of the Greek myth about Zeus/Jupiter’s disguised seduction of the wife of a Greek general. The irregular rhyme and meter delightfully complements the text, lend a light wittiness to a what is by now a reasonably stock story.

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