Approaches to Teaching Moliere's "Tartuffe" and Other Plays

The plays of Moli re are immensely popular with both teachers and students, perhaps because, as the editors of this collection of essays observe, they are "immediately accessible despite their being firmly rooted in the French seventeenth-century tradition." Noted Moli re scholars suggest ways to present the plays, focusing on Tartuffe—"an easy play to teach, for beginning students and advanced graduate students alike find it engaging"— and also discussing his other dramatic works.