Le Tartuffe

Preface by Arthur Nauzyciel. An established, annotated and commented edition by Laurence Rauline. Orgon, a wealthy and pious bourgeois, collects Tartuffe, whose devotion he admires. But this inveterate seducer is only an impostor attracted by the fortune of his host who is pitifully abused.The comedy of the Tartuffe is carrying out an implacable satire of religious hypocrisy and deceptive appearances.The prefabricatedAntoine Vitez's former student, Arthur Nauzyciel is a director known throughout the world for his inventive representations of Molière, Beckett, Koltès and Shakespeare's plays. Since 2007 he has been leading the National Drama Centre of Orléans.The dossierLaurence Rauline is an aggregate of modern letters, a doctor in French literature of the classical age and a teacher in high school.Three reading tracks: 1. The imposteur and his dupes, 2. The fight against hypocrisy, 3. The truth of the theatric lie.