@article{335106, recid = {335106}, author = {Sher, Antony, and Hawthorne, Nigel. and Hampton, Christopher, and Steadman, Alison, and Molière,}, title = {Tartuffe, or, The imposter [videorecording] /}, publisher = {RKO Home Video :}, address = {[Encino, Calif.] :}, pages = {1 videodisc (110 min.) :}, year = {2005}, abstract = {Clutching ever-present rosary beads, shifting uncomfortably within the hairshirt he wears as continual penance--and always eyeing the women as they pass--Tartuffe, Moliére's master of unctuous evil, insinuates himself into a wealthy Parisian household in this indictment of religious hypocrisy. Posing as a holy man, the wily Tartuffe entrances Orgon, a credulous well-to-do merchant, bent on bestowing his worldly goods, social position, and nubile daughter on the perfidious fraud. Tartuffe delights in accepting it all--and also arranges a little depraved dalliance with Orgon's young wife, Elmire.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/335106}, }