Tartuffe: Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price

Moliere's comic masterpiece about an irreclaimable hypocrite - one of the most famous French plays of all time.

The pious Tartuffe is lodging with Orgon and his family, ingratiating himself with both his host and his host's mother to such a degree that both are blinded to his true – rather less virtuous – designs. Like marrying Orgon's daughter Mariane, whilst seducing his wife, Elmire.

This English version of Tartuffe, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and introduced by Martin Sorrell.

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Tartuffe: Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price

Moliere's comic masterpiece about an irreclaimable hypocrite - one of the most famous French plays of all time.

The pious Tartuffe is lodging with Orgon and his family, ingratiating himself with both his host and his host's mother to such a degree that both are blinded to his true – rather less virtuous – designs. Like marrying Orgon's daughter Mariane, whilst seducing his wife, Elmire.

This English version of Tartuffe, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and introduced by Martin Sorrell.

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Tartuffe: Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

Tartuffe: Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

Tartuffe: Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

Tartuffe: Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price

Moliere's comic masterpiece about an irreclaimable hypocrite - one of the most famous French plays of all time.

The pious Tartuffe is lodging with Orgon and his family, ingratiating himself with both his host and his host's mother to such a degree that both are blinded to his true – rather less virtuous – designs. Like marrying Orgon's daughter Mariane, whilst seducing his wife, Elmire.

This English version of Tartuffe, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and introduced by Martin Sorrell.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780012216
Publisher: Hern, Nick Books
Publication date: 08/15/2013
Series: NHB Drama Classics , #54
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 118
Lexile: NP (what's this?)
File size: 137 KB

About the Author

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622–1673), known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. Among Molière's best known works are The Misanthrope, The School for Wives, Tartuffe, The Miser, The Imaginary Invalid and The Bourgeois Gentleman.

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