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She played also several important rles in comedy, among them the Dorine of Tartuffe.

Vaucorbeil laughed in his face; Girbal shrugged his shoulders; and the captain called him Tartuffe.

How applicable are the words of Tartuffe to the advocates of this measure!

The part of the impostor and that of Aristes constitute a very admirable contrast in "Tartuffe."

The next scene introduces Valre, the noble lover of that daughter whom the infatuated father was bent on sacrificing to Tartuffe.

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Everybody understands Pecksniff, and compared with him Tartuffe was an honest man.

In "Tartuffe" we get a form of comedy which is almost tragic, the horribly serious comedy of the hypocrite.

On his return, he finds his grandfather seemingly under the influence of Pecksniff, the hypocrite, the English Tartuffe.

The Cabal made a desperate effort and Tartuffe was forbidden; at the same time no one imagined that the battle was terminated.

When most of the guests had departed, "Tartuffe, the fashionable piece, was played before twenty women and numbers of men."

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OCTOBER 26, 1985