SynopsisAn English verse translation of Molière's second verse comedy, featuring a heroine masquerading as a man, yet unable to evade Cupid., "I came to see that a line that simply says 'I love you, ' at the right point in the show, is entirely adequate, that a great deal of verbal sophistication is not necessarily called for. . . . Speak-ability is so important. That's something I slowly had to learn about poetry, and something I had to work on always with Moli re."--Richard Wilbur Lovers' Quarrels is Moli re's second full-length verse play, animated with deception and tangles of love. Richard Wilbur is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a former Poet Laureate of the United States. His verse translations of Moli re's plays have been performed for audiences throughout the world., An English verse translation of Molière's second verse comedy, featuring a heroine masquerading as a man, yet unable to evade Cupid. 'Wilbur has the uncanny ability to create English versions that never feel like translations. They read and play as if they were originally written in English' Dana Gioia