slightly augmented the annotations. Despite quibbles with certain points, the reviewer for The Modern Language Journal wrote that it had recently had only one significant rival but that Bishop's newly revised work was "the anthology in my opinion". The third edition (2005–2006), revised by Kenneth T. Rivers and in five volumes, again changed the selections and increased the annotations. A review of the new volume on the 18th century found Bishop's original critical commentary "precise, concise, and lively", although in some places old fashioned. Molière Bishop's translation, published in 1950, of Molière's play The Would-Be Invalid was later staged. A reviewer of a performance in 2003 found the text "an odd combination of overly earnest speeches and jangling contemporary references". Eight Plays by Molière in Bishop's translation – The Precious Damsels, The School for Wives, , , Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, The Physician in Spite of Himself, The Would-Be Gentleman – appeared as a volume of the Modern Library in 1957. The reviewer for The French Review found the translations of Molière "brilliant", and praised Bishop's short introduction to each play. The reviewer for The Modern Language Journal found "infrequent disappointments" with Bishop's translations, but supposed that the book would be "genuinely useful". Before Bishop's English translations of Molière, those most commonly used had been the "really bad" Modern Library selection by Henri van Laun, "who had a genuine talent for dullness". Together with the poet Richard Wilbur's rhymed translation of Misanthrope, Bishop's nine unrhymed translations appeared, on their publication in the 1950s, as great improvements to the French literature scholar Donald Frame (who would later translate Molière himself). However, Frame preferred rhyme for translating Molière, and preferred Wilbur's translation to Bishop's; and he was "puzzled that Morris Bishop, a connoisseur of Molière and superb comic poet (Spilt Milk, 'Ozymandias Revisited'), did not put him into rhyme". Storybooks From 1970 to 1971, Bishop published a series of four "storybooks" (each illustrated with line drawings by Alison Mason Kingsbury). A Classical Storybook offered stories in lively English translation (often Bishop's own) from Greek and Latin. A review in Greece & Rome said: "Certainly it is not elementary . . . (although children will read it with avidity)." A review in The Classical Outlook praised the variety of the content and the vividness of the picture it provided. A review in The American Scholar had high praise for A Medieval Storybook: "[T]he tales