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Tartuffe

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Ten actors stand in a line on stage for a curtain call, dressed in full period costume and raising their right arms to salute the production’s stage manager.

The Life of a Traveling Acting Company

How Molière’s life on the road influenced his career

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A man with curly dark hair wearing a black jacket and striped vest looks wide-eyed while another man with a moustache and soul patch puts his right arm around him in a gesture of friendship.

Modern Molière

Translations, adaptations, and “transladaptations” of TARTUFFE, THE MISANTHROPE, and…

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The Life and Work of Molière

The celebrated and controversial playwright of TARTUFFE

A painted portrait of Moliére as a young man, with long curly brown hair, a mustache, and a laurel wreath on his head.

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A painting of a large group of people dressed like ancient gods, including men, women, and children. Louis XIV, the king, relaxes in the top right corner.

For Love or Money: Upward Mobility in 17th Century France

Making over Paris and the middle class…

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A painting of a man in 17th century clothes doing a dramatic reading to a roomful of other people in 17th century clothes.

Molière’s Controversial ‘Tartuffe’

One of our most enduring comedies was almost never seen

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A painting of a large crowd watching a royal procession on a bridge in 17th century Paris

France Under the Sun King

In the 17th century, France emerged from years of chaos into a new golden…

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A painting of the characters from Tartuffe, in which a man in dark clothes with a curly white wig eats a big dinner and scolds a maid who is attending to a distressed young woman reclining on a couch. All are in 17th century clothes.

The Evolution and Rules of Classical French Drama

How the rules of classical French comedy and the…