1. Opening Agenda Things to Get: Things to Do:
Guided notes and reading from front shelf
Half sheet of paper
Things to Do:
Opener – What is Satire?
Class work:
Moliere and Tartuffe
Posentations

2. Useful Terms (Write on the Bottom Margin of your Guided Note Sheet)
Hypocrite – someone who says one thing but does another
Satire – using humor to criticize and change negative ideas or behavior

3. Opener – Half Sheet of Paper
Watch the following video and explain how this is MODERN DAY satire.

4. Baroque – Introduction of Satire Jean Baptiste Poquelin- aka “Moliere”
Son of a wealthy merchant upholsterer
Age 21- gave up office at the Court to become an actor
Founded “Illustre Theater”
Nucleus made of one family
Married one of the women of the company
Toured rural countryside for 12 years
Secured Louis XIV’s patronage by 1659
Popular works: Les Precieuses, L’Ecole des femmes, Tartuffe
Company became La Troupe du Roi
I told them that Moliere was the leading satirical playwright of the time because he wrote social commentary of the middle class, specifically Juvenalian and Menippean (harsh satire of the clergy, commentary on the behavior of specific types of people, but also overall funny observations about the behavior and attitudes of the middle class).

5. Tartuffe or The Imposter
Overview:
Comedy in five acts
The story of an attempt, by a hypocrite, to destroy the domestic happiness of a citizen who, charmed by his seeming piety, has received him as a prominent guest.
Innovation:
To critique the “foils” of French society through theater
1669 Criticism
Outraged contemporary religious opinion and was forbidden public performance
Three petitions to the king
Performed in Paris Salons
Contemporary Reviews:
One of his most well known works
Interesting fact:
“tartuffe" is used to designate a hypocrite who ostensibly and exaggeratedly feigns virtue, especially religious virtue
“someone who steals, lies, lusts after women, is greedy…is that how you would describe a monk?”

6. Tartuffe Reading Questions – 10 min.
Recommended: Read plot overview (short) and then the plot outline (exposition to conclusion) as a group
Read the summary of Tartuffe and answer the questions to gain an understanding of the plot.

7. Plot the story summary in the correct boxes on Freytag’s Pyramid.

8. Tartuffe or The Imposter
Question to ponder:
How would you describe a monk?
Tartuffe is…
“someone who steals, lies, lusts after women, is greedy…”
“someone who steals, lies, lusts after women, is greedy…is that how you would describe a monk?”