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.

Autorentext
Julia Prest is Senior Lecturer in the Department of French at the University of St Andrews, UK.

Inhalt

1. The Struggle for Influence: The Stakes and their Protagonists 2. What Is a faux dévot? The Hypocrite 3. What Is a faux dévot? The Zealot 4. What Is a vrai dévot and Is He a véritable homme de bien? 5. The Struggle for Influence: Tartuffe in an Age of Absolutism