Tartuffe and The Would-Be Gentleman (Moliere)
[Easton Press]

Tartuffe and The Would-Be Gentleman present two of Moliere's sharpest social comedies, skewering religious hypocrisy and bourgeois pretension. In Tartuffe, a pious fraud insinuates himself into a household, while The Would-Be Gentleman follows a man desperate to climb the social ladder through absurd affectations. Both plays use farce, satire, and incisive dialogue to expose vanity, self deception, and the follies of those who mistake appearances for virtue.