Tartuffe

Frontispiece, 1682 edition

Also known as
Tartuffe, or The Imposter; Tartuffe, or The Hypocrite

First performance
1664

Literature form
Play

Genres
Comedy

Writing language
French

Author's country
France

Length
Five acts, approx. 22,000 words

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Come Filipote, I'll not stay under the same roof as them a minute longer.

— First line

The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins committed in private are not sins at all.

It's as if you think you'd never find
Reason and the Sacred intertwined.

Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.

With wedded happiness reward Valere,
And crown a lover noble and sincere.

— Last line