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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: To which the prince replied: The reason is that the comedy of ' Scaramouche' laughs at heaven and religion, about which those gentlemen care nothing at all; but Moliere's comedy laughs at them; and that is a thing they can not endure. ( FIRST PETITION Presented To The King On the Comedy of Tartuffe, which had not yet been represented in public Sire, ? The duty of comedy being to correct men while amusing them, I thought that, in the employ which I hold,1 I could not do better than attack with ridiculous scenes the vices of my epoch; and as hypocrisy is one of the most common, troublesome, and dangerous of those vices, it came into my mind, Sire, that I should do no small service to all honest men in your kingdom if I wrote a comedy against hypocrites, and set forth, in a proper manner, the studied grimaces of those extravagantly pious folk, and the covert rascalities of those counterfeiters of devotion, who endeavor to 1 That of leader of the Troupe du Roi. impose on others by canting zeal and sophistical charity. I wrote the comedy, Sire, with, as I think, all the care and circumspection that the delicacy of the matter demanded; and the better to maintain the respect and esteem which we owe to all true piety, I made the character I had to deal with as plain as possible. I left nothing equivocal in my play. I took out all that might seem to confound good with evil, and used nothing in my picture but the special colors and essential features required to show at first sight an actual, unmistakable hypocrite.- Nevertheless all my precautions have been useless. Persons are relying, Sire, on the sensitiveness of your soul in matters of religion; and they have known how to take you on the only side on which you are takable, ?I mean, that of your respect ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217788915 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217788912 |
| Weight | 0.42 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 120 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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