Book Description
Two timeless comedies by one of France’s greatest playwrights appear here: Tartuffe, a 1664 verse comedy concerning a scoundrel who impersonates a holy man, and the 1670 prose farce The Bourgeois Gentleman, a lampoon of Parisian society with a central character who attempts to adopt the superficial characteristics of the nobility. Original French texts with excellent English interpretations on facing pages. Introduction. Footnotes.
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Text: English, French (translation)
Original Language: French
Tartuffe and the Bourgeois Gentleman/Le Tartuffe Et Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: A Dual-Language Book FROM THE PUBLISHER
Two timeless works by one of France's greatest playwrights: Tartuffe, a 1664 verse comedy concerning con artist, and the 1670 prose farce The Bourgeois Gentleman, in which a member of the middle class apes the nobility. Original French texts; English translations on facing pages.
Two timeless comedies by one of France's greatest playwrights appear here: Tartuffe, a 1664 verse comedy concerning a scoundrel who impersonates a holy man, and the 1670 prose farce The Bourgeois Gentleman, a lampoon of Parisian society with a central character who attempts to adopt the superficial characteristics of the nobility. Original French texts with excellent English interpretations on facing pages. Introduction. Footnotes.
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