Molière: TartuffeE. Arnold, 1960 - 63 pages |
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actor ambivalence argument audience behaviour Boileau C'est Cairncross characters Charpy Cléante Cléante's cocuage cœur comedy comic theme contemporary convention Corneille credulity Damis deeply comic dépit amoureux Descartes dévotion discussion Dorine Dorine's dramatic tension dupe Elmire Elmire's end of Act ethical evidence Exempt expression fact fait farce faux dévot foreshadows French gesture gullibility hairshirt homme de bien hypocrisy hypocrite important impostor infatuation inhuman instinctive intermediate style Jansenists John Cairncross L'Ecole des Femmes La Bruyère language later Le Tartuffe libertin Madame Pernelle Madame Pernelle's Mariane Mariane's marriage master meaning méchant mediate style Michaut Molière Molière's comic n'est nature once Paris Pascal pécher performed piety Plautus play poet portrait pretence qu'il qu'on realism REC'D remarks Restoration comedy ridicule rien rôle satire scene scheme seems seventeenth century speaks spectator speech stage stylistic suggests Tartuffe and Orgon Tartuffe's theatre three acts tout tragedy tromper true truth Valère vérité verse veux voir words