tartuffe acts 1-3
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Tartuffe,· or, T k ~ Impostor
(Tartuffe; ou L'lmposteur)
The first three acts were performed at the Court
of
Ver
sailles in
1664:
the conjoined action of all religious fac
tions-from Jesuits to lansenists-suppressed it.
ts
first public performance was in, r667 and again
it
was
suppressed after a single night. Finally,
it
regained the
stage in 1669, and held it. Moliere could not have writ
ten this t:omedy, karl not Pascal some time before written
his Lettres Provinciales, from whtch indeed the Jesuits
·have ttever wholly recovered in the esteem
of
the world.
The movement, upon Moliere's death, to deny him Chris
tian burial is a good· index to the immense bitterness
which this quiet play induced. As one Vicar wrote to the
King: Moliere is a demon incarnate and dressed like a
man, the f{reatest unbeliever and heretic that ever existed,
e ~ e n
in past ages. The original is in verse.
New
YorK.
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P..c- s .1 .3
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TARTUFFE·
·
OR THE
IMPOSTOR
(TARTUFFEj OU, L lMPOSTEUR)
D.RA.MATIS
P R S ONl
bRGON, husbaniio ELMIRE.
DAMIS,
his
SOtf.
VALERE,
]\fARIANE s
lover.
CLEANTE, ·ORGON s brother-in-law.
TARTUFFE.·
M LoYAL, a tipstaff.
A
POLICE
OFFICER.
ELMIRE,
0RGON s
wife.
MADAME
PERNELLE, ORGON s
mother.
: \ i A R ~ A N E , 0RGON S daughter.
I)oRJ;NE, her maid. ,
FLIPOTE,
MADAME
PERNELLE S servant.
The Scene is in PARis, in 0RGON s Housll.
AC '
I
fYl o I
·
r e
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SCENE I . -MADAME PERNELLE, ELMIRE, MARIANE,
CLEANTE,
DAMIS, DORINE, FLIPOTE.
Madame Pernelle. Come
along, Flipote,
come
along;
let us get away from them.
Elmire.
You walk
so
fast, that
one
can hardly keep
up with you.
Madame Pernelle.
Do not trouble yourself, daughter-
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