The School for Wives concerns an insecure man who contrives to show the world how to rig an infallible alliance by marrying the perfect bride; The Learned Ladies centers on the domestic calamities wrought by a domineering woman upon her husband, children, and household. €œWilbur...makes Moli¨re into as great an English verse playwright as he was a French one€ (John Simon, New York). Introductions by Richard Wilbur.