Tartuffe

Download or read book Tartuffe written by Molière and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1963 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An imposter cleric gets into the house of the wealthy Orgon, whom he fools into promising him his wealth, position, and his young daughter. The translation into English verse of one of Molière's most masterful and most popular plays. A continuous delight from beginning to end (Richard Eberhart). Introduction by Richard Wilbur.

Download or read book Tartuffe written by Molière and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The story takes place in the home of the wealthy Orgon, where Tartuffe--a fraud and a pious imposter--has insinuated himself. He succeeds magnifi-cently in winning the respect and devotion of the head of the house and then tries to marry h

Download or read book Tartuffe written by Jean-Baptiste Moliere and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1993-12 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Condemned and banned for five years in MoliA]re'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.

Download or read book Molière's Tartuffe, Or, The Impostor written by Molière and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1984 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tartuffe, a pious hypocrite, insinuates himself into the household of Orgon, a gullible but wealthy Parisian. Many attempts by Orgon's wife, Elmire, and other family members to show the truth about Tartuffe are frustrated, while Orgon nearly loses his wealth, his daughter, and his honor to the treachery of Tartuffe.

Download or read book Tartuffe written by Freyda Thomas and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy / 6m, 5f / Int. This modern adaptation casts Tartuffe as a deposed televangelist who rooks Orgon and his family of their money and property and nearly compromises Orgon's wife. The action takes place in a religious television studio in Baton Rouge where the characters cavort to either prevent or aid Tartuffe in his machinations. Written in modern verse, Tartuffe: Born Again adheres closely to the structure and form of the original. Moliere's legendary comedic characters are delightfully

Download or read book Tartuffe written by Molière and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-07-15T19:16:01Z with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three acts of Molière’s Tartuffe were first performed for Louis XIV in 1664, but the play was almost immediately suppressed—not because the King disliked it, but because the church resented the insinuation that the pious were frauds. After several different versions were written and performed privately, Tartuffe was eventually published in its final five-act form in 1669. A comic tale of man taken in by a sanctimonious scoundrel, the characters of Tartuffe, Elmire, and Orgon are considered among some of the great classical theater roles. As the family strives to convince the patriarch that Tartuffe is a religious fraud, the play ultimately focuses on skewering not the hypocrite, but his victims, and the hypocrisy of fervent religious belief unchecked by facts or reason—a defense Molière himself used to overcome the church’s proscriptions. In the end, the play was so impactful that both French and English now use the word “Tartuffe” to refer to a religious hypocrite who feigns virtue. In its original French, the play is written in twelve-syllable lines of rhyming couplets. Curtis Hidden Page’s translation invokes a popular compromise and renders it into the familiar blank verse without rhymed endings that was popularized by Shakespeare. The translation is considered a seminal one by modern translators. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Download or read book Tartuffe written by Moliere and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prudence Steiner's lively prose translation of Moliere's great comedy remains close to the original French, while casting the speech of characters in a slightly compressed and formalized way that comes very close to the original effect created by Molière's verse. This edition includes translations of Moliere's three appeals to the king, as well as an introductory essay by Roger Herzel, which discusses Moliere's life, Tartuffe and the comic tradition, and the setting, language and style of the play.