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A Lion Was Learning to Ski, and Other Limericks
When he came across an old-English limerick that made him laugh, playwright Ranjit Bolt started writing nonsensical verse to entertain his friends. On a whim he decided to staple …
The Oedipus Plays
Oedipus Plays includes Ranjit Bolts's vibrant translations of Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonos.
Corneille: Three Masterpieces
Includes the plays The Liar, The Illusion, Le Cid Pierre Corneille (1606 - 84), the great seventeenth-century neoclassical dramatist, wrote over thirty plays during his long and …
A Knight with a Big Blue Balloon
Jokes wrapped in wordplay and rhyme, limericks date back to the middle ages. Playwright Ranjit Bolt started writing them - both nonsensical and irreverent ones - almost daily and …
The Grouch
""How I deplore the bogus ways Of society these days - A sort of national contest To find out who can a*se-lick best!" In this witty cutting version of Le Misanthrope Moliere's …
Art of Translation
I try to follow the rule laid down by perhaps the greatest translator of all, John Dryden, who maintained that a translator should and I paraphrase make the version as …
A Lion Was Learning to Ski
The paperback of the bestselling first edition published Christmas 2015.
Goldoni: Two Plays
"In the year of the bicentenary of the death of Carlo Goldoni, one of Italy's most brilliant dramatists, two of his greatest comedies are brought to life in Ranjit Bolt's vibrant …
Cyrano De Bergerac
"Comic poet and dazzling swordsman, Cyrano is hopelessly in love with Roxane. But Roxane loves the dashing Christian. Cyrano, in a selfless act of love, woos Roxane on Christian's …