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1) Tartuffe
Author
Language
English
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"The religious fraud Tartuffe has wormed his way into the affections and household of rich merchant Orgon, with pantomime piety and counterfeit zeal. So comprehensively has he hoodwinked his host that he looks set to succeed in driving away the son, marrying the daughter, seducing the wife and imprisoning Orgon. Moliere's classic satire was denounced on its first performance as a sacreligious outrage and banned from further public view. Only after...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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 his daughter and seduce his wife and scrounge the deed to the property. He nearly gets away with it, but an emissary from King Louis XIV arrives in time to recover the property, free Monsieur Orgon and haul Tartuffe...
Author
Publisher
Coward McCann
Pub. Date
[1961]
Language
English
Description
This comedy presents a group of rich, clever aristocrats saturated with sexual experience and expertise. The count and countess permit one another's infidelities with the understanding that affairs must be restricted to their own artificial milieu. But when the count falls in love with a unsullied young woman, his wife and former mistress seal a bizarre alliance to destroy the girl.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Description
In the Misanthrope, Alceste begins as a man who loves mankind so much that he cannot brook flattery or hypocrisy and winds up withdrawing from society in disgust. In Tartuffe, unctuous, cunning and evil Tartuffe insinuates himself into the home of substantial citizen Orgon. Tartuffe almost succeeds in driving the son away, marrying the daughter, seducing the wife and depriving Orgon of all his possessions.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
"Monsieur Jourdain, a wealthy tradesman, is sparing no expense to try to buy what he can never be: a born gentleman. As delightful as he is fatuous and as genuine as he is naive, M. Jourdain's attempts to transform himself through custom-tailored clothing and all manner of lessons are absurd to everyone-except himself. But when his pretensions lead him to refuse his daughter's hand to Cleante on the grounds that the young man is not a gentleman, he...
