Used book – Tartuffe, Jean-Baptiste Molière (known as Poquelin)

Foreword by Arthur Nauzyciel. Edition edited, annotated, and commented by Laurence Rauline.

Orgon, a wealthy and pious bourgeois, takes in Tartuffe, whose devotion he admires. But this inveterate seducer is nothing but an impostor, drawn by his host's fortune, who is pitifully deceived.

The comedy of Tartuffe engages in an implacable satire of religious hypocrisy and deceptive appearances.

The Foreword Writer A former student of Antoine Vitez, Arthur Nauzyciel is a director recognized worldwide for his inventive productions of plays by Molière, Beckett, Koltès, and Shakespeare. Since 2007, he has directed the National Dramatic Centre of Orléans.

The Dossier Laurence Rauline holds an agrégation in modern literature, a doctorate in French literature of the classical age, and teaches in high school.

Three lines of inquiry: 1. The impostor and his dupes, 2. The fight against hypocrisy, 3. The truth of theatrical lies.

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