Two timeless comedies by one of France's greatest playwrights: Tartuffe, a 1664 verse comedy concerning a scoundrel who impersonates a holy man, and the 1670 prose farce The Bourgeois Gentleman, a lampoon about the superficial characteristics of Parisian nobility.

LDF Notes: Bilingual book. Includes approx. 10 page of introductory text presenting the writer and the chosen text. English translations on opposite page.