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
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Reading RatCriticism (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
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