Download Book Controversy in French Drama : Molière’s Tartuffe and the Struggle for Influence
Authors
Julia Prest
Year
2014
Publication
ISBN
9781349465941, 9781137344007
Abstract
In 1664, Molière's Tartuffe was banned from public performance. This book provides a detailed, in-depth account of five-year struggle (1664-69) to have the ban lifted and, so doing, sheds important new light on 1660s France and the ancien régime more broadly.