: J. Prest
: Controversy in French Drama Molière's Tartuffe and the Struggle for Influence
: Palgrave Macmillan
: 9781137344007
: 1
: CHF 47.30
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: Theater, Ballett
: English
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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.

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