Turcaret

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Turcaret (or Le Financier) is a comedy by Alain-René Lesage, first produced on February 14, 1709 at the Comédie-Française. It is considered one of Lesage's most important works.

The play shows clear signs of having been written by an admirer of Molière, and has much in common with Tartuffe.

Turcaret is a ruthless, dishonest and dissolute financier. His vulgar wife is as dissolute as himself. A harebrained marquis, a knavish chevalier and a coquettish baroness, to whom Turcaret is attracted, are among the other highly comic characters.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Richard Parish, "Marine Chassée": A Reconsideration of the Dramatic Structure of Lesage's Turcaret. "En marge du classicisme": Essays on the French Theatre from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, ed. Alan Howe & Richard Waller, Liverpool, Liverpool UP; 1987, p. 173-199
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