School for Wives and the Learned Ladies, by Moliere

The School for Wives concerns an insecure man who contrives to show the world how to rig an infallible alliance by marrying the perfect bride; The Learned Ladies centers on the domestic calamities wrought by a domineering woman upon her husband, children, and household. "Wilbur...makes Moliere into as great an English verse playwright as he was a French one" (John Simon, New York). Introductions by Richard Wilbur.