Moliere

Alceste's larger flaw is also the engine that drives the plot: his passionate love for Celimene, a young and heartless flirt who, in playing him false while she plays the field, embodies the worst traits of the society Alceste despises. --Mike Fischer, Boulevard finds dark heart of Moliere's 'Misanthrope', Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 16, 2008, review of a production by Boulevard Ensemble


Recommended reading:
by Moliere at Reading Rat


Criticism (articles, essays, reviews):

Superb 'Tartuffe' ends in giddiness by Damien Jaques, review of a production by the Milwaukee Repertory Company, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 8, 2007

'Tartuffe' hits the right notes, by Tom Strini, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, January 27, 2007