• Tartuffe was censored… but why?
• General overview of plot
• Historical context for 17th-century France 
• Tension between Moliére, King Louis XIV, and the French Roman Catholic Church
• Multiple versions of the play were written due to complaints from the Church
• What did Moliére change to“fix” the play and what are the implications of those changes?
  • Introducing the “king ex machina” device!
• What about censorship and book bans today and how do these contexts enrich Tartuffe in production?

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Episode Transcript and Bibliography available here.

• Introducing Tartuffe (Dorine’s Version)
  • Paging Taylor Swift!
  • Tartuffe and adaptation theory
  • Moliere as a “reverse Swiftie”
• John explains the plot of Tartuffe in under one minute
• What’s feminism got to do with it?
  • Feminist theory 101
  • Applying a feminist lens to Tartuffe
  • Dorine’s agency in the play
• What if the female characters in Tartuffe were Swifties? How would their favorite TSwift songs shape our understanding of their function within the play?

Episode Transcript and Bibliography available here.