Tartuffe

Question 1

Who wrote it?

Answer 1

Moliere

Question 2

Comedy of Manners

Answer 2

Selling culture

How to be cool, wearing whats in style

Question 3

Commedia dell’Arte Training

Answer 3

Similar to a modern circus

Moliere spends 20 years here

Question 4

Hypocrisy

Answer 4

You know what you are doing is wrong but you still do it

There’s no changing who you are

Question 5

Wit

Answer 5

Sense of humor + speed of timing

Question 6

Catholicism vs. Monarchy in Tartuffe

Answer 6

Catholicism - Tartuffe

Monarchy - House of Orgon

Question 7

Patronage—Louis XIV

Answer 7

Louis was Moliere’s friend and gave him financial freedom with Comedie Française productions

Question 8

Deus ex machina

Answer 8

“God from the machine”

Term for tacked on happy ending

Question 9

The Misanthrope (1666)

Answer 9

Written in prison
What Moliere wanted to do
Misanthropic - hate the human race

Question 10

Comedie Française

Answer 10

First national public / literal theater
King Louis lets Moliere do what he wants/gives him all his money
Moliere died on stage in 1673 due to a stroke

Question 11

Catholicism vs. Monarchy in Moliere’s life

Answer 11

Catholicism - stopped Moliere’s plays while being performed

Monarchy - Louis told Moliere to do his plays and that things would be fine

Question 12

What changes did Moliere have to make in order to stop the Catholic Church from hassling him?

Answer 12

Add Cleante
Change the ending
Change the physical appearance of Tartuffe

Question 13

How did Tartuffe originally end?

Answer 13

Tartuffe originally ended with Orgon going to jail.

Question 14

Tartuffe is a _______ style play written for a _______ audience.

Answer 14

Commedia dell’Arte; French audience.

Question 15

Which scenes of Tartuffe involved a “hairshirt” and “scourge”?

Answer 15

Tartuffe’s entrance and his encounter with the maid Dorine