Excerpt from The Plays of Moliere, Vol. 1: In French With an English Translation and Notes; 1655-1656 Mollere in English blank verse is impossible; in rhymed couplets he reads more like the 'book' of a pantomime I experimented a little in both before I came to the conclusion that the only possible way, so far as I was concerned, to render his verse comedies into English, was to render them in prose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.