Tartuffe

Molière · 1664 CE · Play · French · Enlightenment

Orgon has taken a penniless holy man into his house and fallen so far under him that he will hand over his daughter, and then everything else. The rest of the household, servants included, can see precisely what Tartuffe is and cannot get Orgon to look. Hypocrisy anatomized in rhyme.

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• parallels ↑ The Misanthrope
  Molière · 1666 CE · Play
• ↓ The Misanthrope
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