When was tartuffe banned

In Newfoundland in the late s, during the Great Depression people from smaller towns went to work for wealthy families in the big cities. This gave me a reason for Dorine being in service to Orgon's family. A war hero : It's important to the ending of the play that the main character be a hero in a recent war. World War I was a significant event in Newfoundland.

We lost a greater per capita proportion of men than any of the other dominions in the British Commonwealth. Almost every family was touched by the war. Orgon becomes a believable character as a World War I hero. He wanted Newfoundland's support for the coming war remember, this is before Confederation. An authority figure in the last scene : I chose a Newfoundland Ranger to portray this role.

The Rangers predated the RCMP in Newfoundland, and were community leaders and government representatives in all the small towns. They knew everyone's history, and would have been in contact with the King.

Language : The original play is written in verse, and my version is as well. I used a lot of expressions from Newfoundland. I consulted three dictionaries, and used many familiar turns of phrase. I also made up a few expressions of my own. The next four years marked Newfoundland in unforgettable ways. Many men were available to serve, because unemployment was a big problem at the time. Hampton has made Orgon a French movie producer who buys a Hollywood studio, and dropped in some lines about the inappropriate sexual behaviour of movie moguls.

After its original French premiere, Tartuffe was twice banned for perceived anti-Catholicism, and its challenge to religious values is the hardest part of the drama to reproduce these days, when few theatregoers would be shocked even if the venal priest came on dressed as the pope.

The reason I set it in America is that they do still take religion very seriously. And the idea of someone coming out of the desert, as it were, in California and being charismatic and taken up by rich people is much easier to accommodate. Another problem for modern stagings is the bizarre ending, in which a messenger suddenly arrives from Louis XIV, and, through a speech larded with compliments to the monarch, resolves the plot.

He added it to flatter the king. So what do you do with this speech that is really nothing to do with the play? So what happens at the end of the play is that an envoy from the White House arrives. The speech is so over the top that I think it was written tongue in cheek. Having once adopted a life of piety, Orgon tries to become the epitome of the pious person and goes to absurd extremes both in his words and deeds. Why tartuffe was banned? Asked by: Josefa Stehr. Who is Tartuffe in love with?

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