Il Tartufo - Il misantropo
by:
Molière (author)
Sandro Bajini (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788811363101 (8811363101)
Publish date: May 2011
Publisher: Garzanti
Pages no: 351
Edition language: Italian
Category:
Classics,
Humor,
Academic,
Literature,
Cultural,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
College,
Poetry,
France
Moliere has long been on my to-read list because his comedies were on a list of "100 Significant Books" I was determined to read through. The introduction in one of the books of his plays says that of his "thirty-two comedies... a good third are among the comic masterpieces of world literature." The...
Tartuffe is probably one of Moliere’s most well-known plays. Mostly because of the controversy it generated in his time and its subsequent banning. The hyper-hypocritical religiosity of Tartuffe didn’t sit well with the Church. So, yeah, it’s funny. And really not that controversial since the f...
Okay, I like tragedy better than comedy. Sorry if that makes me all emo. These two plays by Moliere...I like them more than most comedies. I like them more than Shakespeare's comedies, and I like them at least as much as Aristophanes. They're very focused: each presents its case and makes it. I...
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