The Editor and Translator: Belgian-born Oscar Mandel is Professor of Literature at the California Institute of Technology. He has published translations of plays by Molière, Thomas Corneille, Marivaux, Tirso de Molina, Ludwig Tieck, August von Kotzebue, and others. His Reinventions: Four Plays After Homer, Cervantes, Calderón, and Marivaux is the most recent collection of his own works for the stage.