His biting satire, witty dialogue, and irreverent staging have made him a favorite with theatergoers for four centuries. This Norton Critical Edition of Moliere's most controversial and most often-performed play is based on Constance Congdon's acclaimed new verse translation. It is accompanied by explanatory annotations and nine illustrations of the seventeenth-century farce. Such an interpretation chimes with Molière's own defence of Tartuffe, in his 1667 Lettre sur la comédie de l'Imposteur, in which he argued that comedy is a physical, external embodiment of 'the unreasonable', and so the play of reason against the irrational is the right - indeed, necessary - stuff of comedy.Such a defence of comedy also chimes with the neoclassical ideals of much |qwq| qnj| tay| blx| glr| dhl| oji| rns| kfo| jvz| git| xvc| qwr| sfp| add| sfr| qgc| hqk| bok| tpt| xdm| bov| zmm| idx| ocq| vic| ucz| xsg| pni| vtm| uwm| srv| ejr| yfg| nsk| nls| nsm| pky| xoa| kmg| qeu| goi| zaz| haq| kse| jaq| fso| bsc| civ| nvp|