2007-10-26 A beautiful play butchered.

Within moments of opening up this book I found myself utterly disgusted at what is being marketed as an updated version of the English translation of Moliere's 'The Misanthrope', a play that is, in my opinion one of the most clever, witty, well written comedys of it's era. The opening line, 'Oh, what's the matter? Whats wrong now?' sets the tone for this crude, basic translation which robs Moliere's play of all the beauty and delicacy he wrote it with and instead offers us tacky, shallow dialogue which would barely be worthy of a nursery rhym. Let me assure you that anyone with any respect for the works of Moliere, or even simply for posterity and traditon will be horrified at this so called 'new translation' and I urge you not to waste your hard earned money.