With Voltaire's Life of the Author, Grammatical and Explanatory Notes, the Argument of each Act, and a Vocabulary BY GUSTAVE MASSON, B.A., UNIV. GALLIC. Officier d'Académie, ASSISTANT MASTER AND LIBRARIAN OF HARROW SCHOOL. 66 ...Molière's scene Chastis'd and regular, with well-judged wit, THOMPSON. Tenth Edition, entirely revised. LIBRAIRIE HACHETTE & CIE. BOSTON: CARL SCHOENhof. 1886. All Rights Reserved. 6-14-32 INTRODUCTION. A NEW EDITION of this play being called for, I have availed myself of the opportunity of entirely recasting the notes, and adding a vocabulary, borrowed mainly from the late M. GENIN'S "Lexique de la Langue de Molière." The text is that of M. LAVIGNE'S excellent little volume, which is a faithful reprint of the editio princeps (1669), collated with the edition of Molière's complete works, published in 1682. VOLTAIRE's biographical sketch appropriately prefaces this amusing comedy; the notes are partly of a literary, partly of a philological character, the latter being those which from their length could not well be included in the vocabulary. The literary appreciations, taken from the best commentators, such as LA HARPE, BRET, AUGER, MM. SAINTE-BEUVE, SAINTMARC GIRARDIN, VINET, GÉRUZEZ, etc., etc., will, I trust, be found useful. The passages of PLAUTUS and other writers, which MOLIÈRE has imitated, are added, together with the principal readings of the play itself, and a number of biographical, historical, and bibliographical details. GUSTAVE MASSON. "L'Avare," comédie, édition publiée conformément aux textes originaux, avec une notice, une analyse, et des notes philologiques et littéraires, par R. Lavigne, agrégé des lettres, professeur au Lycée Henri IV. 12mo, Paris and London, Hachette & Co. |