Journal Title
Title of Journal: Neophilologus
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Abbravation: Neophilologus
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
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Authors: Julia Prest
Publish Date: 2012/07/04
Volume: 97, Issue: 2, Pages: 283-297
Abstract
The famous controversy provoked by Molière’s Tartuffe 1664–1669 is usually read in terms of vrais and faux dévots and thought to turn on the question of sincerity versus hypocrisy Here the vraifaux dichotomy is challenged and a third term introduced in the form of the véritable homme de bien of Molière’s Preface to the published edition of the play In the slippage between a vrai dévot and a véritable homme de bien considered by most critics to be synonymous I argue lies a valuejudgment and the suggestion of an alternative more secular worldview that persisted even in the 1669 version of the play The scandal of Tartuffe thus lies less with the threat of religious hypocrisy and more with the possibility that true morality could be found outside the Church
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