Lovers' Quarrels

Lovers' Quarrels

<div><p>“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 Molière.”—Richard Wilbur</p><p><I>Lovers’ Quarrels</I> is Molière’s second full-length verse play, animated with deception and tangles of love.</p><p><B>Richard Wilbur</B> is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a former Poet Laureate of the United States. His verse translations of Molière’s plays have been performed for audiences throughout the world.</p></div>