Tartuffe-Moliere

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Tartuffe, or The Impostor, or The Hypocrite Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur, pronounced ), first performed in 1664, is a theatrical comedy by Molière. The characters of Tartuffe, Elmire, and Orgon are considered among the greatest classical theatre roles.

## History

Molière performed his first version of Tartuffe in 1664. Almost immediately following its performance that same year at Versailles' grand fêtes (The Party of the Delights of the Enchanted Island/Les fêtes des plaisirs de l'ile enchantée), King Louis XIV suppressed it, probably under the influence of the archbishop of Paris, Paul Philippe Hardouin de Beaumont de Péréfixe, the King's confessor and former tutor. While the king had little personal interest in suppressing the play, he did so because, as stated in the official account of the fête:

> although it was found to be extremely diverting, the king recognized so much conformity between those that a true devotion leads on the path to heaven and those that a vain ostentation of some good works does not prevent from committing some bad ones, that his extreme delicacy to religious matters can not suffer this resemblance of vice to virtue, which could be mistaken for each other; although one does not doubt the good intentions of the author, even so he forbids it in public, and deprived himself of this pleasure, in order not to allow it to be abused by others, less capable of making a just discernment of it.

As a result of Molière's play, contemporary French and English both use the word "tartuffe" to designate a hypocrite who ostensibly and exaggeratedly feigns virtue, especially religious virtue. The play is written entirely in twelve-syllable lines (alexandrines) of rhyming couplets—1,962 lines total...FROM. WIKIPEDIA

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Here are some versions of the play. If your French is not up to it turn the subtitle function on.

# MOLIÈRE – Le Tartuffe (Pièce filmée, 1962)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9b1AI7qNb8

RSC Production of TARTUFFE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh0nJe5kQ-8

# 2017 Molière's Tartuffe by Sylvaine Strike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80awdJkQYNA

# Tartuffe (1925) Drama | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGJdr1yFWEU

# TARTUFFE de Molière | Théâtre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAgScqdsUL4

# Le Tartuffe - Michel Bouquet - Delphine Seyrig - Jacques Weber - 1971 - Subs - Restauré 2024