D’un Tartuffe à l’autre : Molière s’est-il renié ?
- Publication type: Journal article
- Journal: Revue d’Histoire littéraire de la France. varia
1 – 2017, 117e année, n° 1 - Author: Dandrey (Patrick)
- Abstract: After recalling the circumstances surrounding the composition of Tartuffe, we refute the recent hypothesis that the first version (1664) was an attack against excessively pious individuals, of whom Tartuffe is a polemical incarnation, before, for convenience’s sake, becoming a knave in the following versions. In the place of chronological ambivalence between two conceptions of Tartuffe, we substitute an internal comic ambiguity from the outset: the false devotee can, in this guise, be mocked in order to ridicule the truly pious with impunity. [519]
- Pages: 149 to 158
- Journal: Journal of French Literary History
- CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
- EAN: 9782406067016
- ISBN: 978-2-406-06701-6
- ISSN: 2105-2689
- DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-06701-6.p.0149
- Publisher: Classiques Garnier
- Online publication: 01-27-2017
- Periodicity: Quarterly
- Language: French
- Keyword: seventeenth-century literature, Molière, Tartuffe, satire, devotion, comedy, genetics