Chatsky & Miser, Miser! Two Plays by Anthony Burgess - Paperback
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Chatsky & Miser, Miser! Two Plays by Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess was an energetic writer and composer, whose work
for the stage is widely admired. In Two Plays, we see him tackling
major monuments of French and Russian theatre: The Miser by
Molière and Chatsky by Alexander Griboyedov.
Miser, Miser! is a bold reworking of Molière's classic comedy of
1668. Harpagon the miser is hoarding a pile of gold, which he has
buried in his garden. As he...
Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917 and educated at Xaverian College and Manchester University. He spent six years in the British Army before becoming an education officer in Malaya and Brunei. After the success of his Malayan Trilogy, he became a full-time writer in 1959. He achieved a worldwide reputation as one of the leading novelists of his day, and one of the most versatile. In...
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