Name: Tartuffe, by Molière
ISBN: 9780156881807

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Why This Clicks

Piety onstage

A celebrated play about sanctimony and social influence, in Richard Wilbur’s English translation.

Come here for

The comic friction between public virtue and private motives
A classic play with a vivid central swindler

Expect

Stage-minded dialogue in a translated play
A sharp look at misplaced trust and influence

Book Details

Authors: Molière
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: January 10, 1968
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Italian Plays · French Plays
Reading lane: Italian Plays

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French Plays
German Plays
Italian Plays
Plays by Women

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World Literature / France / General
Women Authors Collections
Performing Arts Resources
Theater

About This Book

The renowned French playwright Molière's most masterful and most frequently performed play, skillfully translated into English by the Pulitzer Prize–winning translator Richard Wilbur. The rich bourgeois Orgon has become a bigot and prude. The title character, a wily opportunist and swindler, affects sancity and gains complete ascendancy over Ogron, who not only attemps to turn over his fortune but offers his daughter in marriage to his "spiritual" guide. Translated and with...

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The renowned French playwright Molière's most masterful and most frequently performed play, skillfully translated into English by the Pulitzer Prize–winning translator Richard Wilbur. The rich bourgeois Orgon has become a bigot and prude. The title character, a wily opportunist and swindler, affects sancity and gains complete ascendancy over Ogron, who not only attemps to turn over his fortune but offers his daughter in marriage to his "spiritual" guide. Translated and with an Introduction by Richard Wilbur.