Name: Le Tartuffe
Rating: 3.342592592592593 (54 reviews)
ISBN: 9782070409327

Molière

Jean Serroy

L'édition reproduit le texte et la préface (p. 35-42) de la première édition originale datée de mars 1669. Présentation, p. 7-30. Dossier de plus de 70 pages: chronologie, notice, mises en scène de Tartuffe, notes, résumé.

Le Tartuffe

Moliere

Condemned and banned for five years in Molière's day, Tartuffe is a satire on religious hypocrisy. Tartuffe worms his way into Orgon's household, blinding the master of the house with his religious "devotion," and almost succeeds in his attempts to seduce his wife and disinherit his children before the final unmasking.

Tartuffe

Abby

This translation of the classic is a gem! So beautifully rhymes and keeping the spirit of the original in English. Truly great!

Molia]re

Richard Wilbur's verse translation of Tartuffe has been acclaimed as a masterpiece in its own right. Set in rhymed couplets, it captures not only the tone of the original but the dramatic energy as well. Not surprisingly, the play in this translation has been performed regularly over the years. One of Moliere's most popular plays, Tartuffe, written in 1669, tells the story of Orgon, a rich bourgeois who has become a prude and bigot in his middle age. He is the perfect mark for Tartuffe, a wily opportunist and swindler, who ingratiates himself with Orgon by affecting an air of piety. Soon the gulled Orgon not only hands over his fortune but offers his daughter in marriage to Tartuffe. But Orgon discovers his "spiritual" master's true nature in a most shocking and hilarious fashion.

Le Tartuffe

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