Labiche & Co.: Fourteen One-Acts by a French Comic Master

(Applause Books). Norman R. Shapiro has clearly established himself as the outstanding English interpreter of farce in America.

Robert Scanlan, Harvard University Fourteen comic plays of Eugene Marin Labiche, one of the world’s most prolific comic playwrights, translated by Norman Shapiro. Among the plays included are Bosom Friends , The Brat , A Bee or Not a Bee , It’s All Relative , The Unshakeable Suitor , A Nest-Egg Well Scrambled , and A Slap in the Farce .