Psyche
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in the full range of Molière's plays who want his non-comic works
- Literature students studying seventeenth-century French drama and mythological adaptation
- Readers who like the Greek myth of Psyche and want a dramatic adaptation
- Teachers who need a free English e-book for classroom or paper materials
Not a good fit for
- General readers who only want Molière's classic comedies and have no interest in mythological plays
- Beginners unused to verse dialogue and classical mythological allusions
- Beginners who need detailed notes or a modern translation
Reading tips
- First get an outline of the Psyche and Eros myth, then enter the verse dialogue to reduce obstacles from allusions.
- Read it alongside Molière's representative comedies to see the differences in his writing across genres.
- Note scene changes and stage directions and imagine the visual and musical effects of court performance.
- If the English is hard, read the original myth first and then return to the play.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Molière (1622-1673), born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, was a leading figure of French classical comedy and worked in the seventeenth-century French theatre as both actor and playwright. The library holds 41 of his works, including such representative plays as Tartuffe, The Miser, and Don Juan, ou le Festin de pierre, as well as multi-volume editions of his complete works. Drawing on everyday life, his comedies expose hypocrisy, greed, and vanity with exaggerated yet incisive satire; his characters are vividly drawn and his dialogue witty and lively, conveying criticism of social ills through laughter. Public information on his early life and education is limited, so no speculation is offered here. His plays have had a profound influence on French and European theatre history and are still frequently staged today.
