History Theatre / Tartuffe

%%* ConMan: Tartuffe is basically one.

* HotBlooded: Upon finding out Tartuffe is a fraud, Damis can hardly contain his rage and goes to immediately to confront him, risking to expose Dorine's plan to oust him.

%%* INeedToGoIronMyDog
%%-->''TARTUFFE: Sir, it is half-past three; certain devotions \\

%%* MoralGuardian: Tartuffe acts like this in Orgon's house towards pretty much everything, from daily activities to fashion.

* HidingBehindReligion: Tartuffe uses extremely public prayer and unsubstantiated claims of alms-giving to justify all his rude, greedy, and lustful behavior. When Orgon learns big T tried to seduce his wife, Tartuffe manages to get him to disbelieve the whole thing by vaguely admitting that he has committed spiritual adultery with his sins against God, using pious admissions of sinfulness to make it unthinkable that he committed the sins he committed five minutes before.

* CatchPhrase: In an early scene, when Dorine is describing how Tartuffe has been gorging and swilling while while Elmire had been suffering from a dangerous illness, Orgon's only response is a repeated, "The poor man!" [[BorrowedCatchphrase Dorine later uses the phrase herself ironically.]]

* DeusExMachina: At the end of the play [[spoiler:the King has Tartuffe sent to prison for numerous unspecified crimes.]] [[PanderingToTheBase It is a comedy, after all, made with King's money.]]

* BlatantLies: After ignoring all evidence of Tartuffe's obvious hypocrisy against the counsel of everyone in his family, Orgon finally becomes convinced Tartuffe is a hoax and has the gall to claim he suspected Tartuffe of hypocrisy the whole time, after signing over all his property to the man!

%%* HidingBehindReligion

* AntagonistTitle
* ArrangedMarriage: Orgon tries to marry off his daughter Mariane to Tartuffe.

* ConMan: Tartuffe is basically one.
* DeadpanSnarker: Dorine, Mariane's handmaiden, has this trope in spades. Mariane isn't bad either.

* DirtyOldMonk: Tartuffe is a lecher pretending to be a man of God.

* HidingBehindReligion

* HotBlooded: Damis

* INeedToGoIronMyDog
-->''TARTUFFE: Sir, it is half-past three; certain devotions \\
Recall me to my closet; you'll forgive me \\

* MoralGuardian: Tartuffe acts like this in Orgon's house towards pretty much everything, from daily activities to fashion.

* ServileSnarker: Dorine.

* TakeThat: Against [[EvilJesuit casuistry]].

!!''Tartuffe'' provides examples of the following tropes:

* DeusExMachina: At the end of the play [[spoiler: the King has Tartuffe sent to prison for numerous unspecified crimes.]] [[PanderingToTheBase It is a comedy, after all, made with King's money.]]

!!Particular productions or adaptations contain examples of:

* SinisterMinister: Tartuffe.

* SettingUpdate: A translation by Australian playwright Justin Fleming sets the action in 21st-century Australia, making use of Aussie slang and incorporating a number of topical jokes. The deus ex machina at the end takes the form of a TV news crew finishing up an investigation into Tartuffe's activities.
* SettingUpdate: An adaptation by actor/author/comedian Andy Jones in rhyming couplets uses a setting of 1939 Newfoundland (that is, before confederation with Canada) and many words and phrases unique to the province.

* SettingUpdate: A translation by actor/author/comedian Andy Jones in rhyming couplets uses a setting of 1939 Newfoundland (that is, before confederation with Canada) and many words and phrases unique to the province.

* [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense Rich in Livres Poor in Sense]]: Orgon. By the time he realizes Tartuffe is a fraud, [[spoiler: he's given the man the deed to his estate.]]

* DirtyOldMonk: Tartuffe is probably the Trope Codifier.

!!Particular productions or adaptation contain examples of:

'''''Tartuffe, ou, l'Imposteur''''' is possibly the most famous play of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, a.k.a. Creator/{{Moliere}}. Tartuffe is a con man who has the well-to-do Orgon convinced that he's a pious, generous, and all-around good guy. Everyone else (save for Orgon's mother) can see right through the ruse and try desperately to make Orgon see Tartuffe for the fraud he is -- especially when Orgon disinherits his son in Tartuffe's favor and attempts to make his daughter jilt her eligible suitor to marry the hypocrite. Worse yet, Orgon has admitted covering for a friend involved in a political plot -- and Tartuffe has no scruples about informing when this proves to be advantageous to him.

* DirtyOldMonk: Tartuffe is probably the TropeCodifier.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Tartuffe reveals his true colors to Mariane, unaware that Orgon is listening.

* CatchPhrase: In an early scene, when Dorine is describing how Tartuffe has been gorging and swilling while while Elmire had been suffering from a dangerous illness, Orgon's only response is a repeated, "The poor man!"
** BorrowedCatchphrase: Dorine later uses the phrase herself ironically.

* DeusExMachina: At the end of the play [[spoiler: the King has Tartuffe sent to prison for numerous unspecified crimes]]
** PanderingtotheBase It is a comedy, after all. Made with King's money

* AllMenArePerverts: Played with, as one scene has Tartuffe going on at length (in-character) how one female character is showing too much cleaveage. However, it's also obvious he's admiring the view.

'''''Tartuffe, ou, l'Imposteur''''' is possibly the most famous play of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, a.k.a. {{Moliere}}. Tartuffe is a con man who has the well-to-do Orgon convinced that he's a pious, generous, and all-around good guy. Everyone else (save for Orgon's mother) can see right through the ruse and try desperately to make Orgon see Tartuffe for the fraud he is -- especially when Orgon disinherits his son in Tartuffe's favor and attempts to make his daughter jilt her eligible suitor to marry the hypocrite. Worse yet, Orgon has admitted covering for a friend involved in a political plot -- and Tartuffe has no scruples about informing when this proves to be advantageous to him.

Published and performed in 1664, ''Tartuffe'' almost immediately drew the ire of some Catholic clerics (notably the Archbishop of Paris), who believed the play to be an attack against them (partly because, in the earliest performances, Tartuffe was costumed like a ''dévot'', a member of the extreme Catholic party at court). They banned the play and threatened to excommunicate anyone who performed in or even saw it. In later versions, the author revised the character, to make him more secular. Fortunately for the dramatist, the King remained firm in his support, and he was able to avoid the threatened excommunication.

* ArrangedMarriage: Orgon tries to marry off his daughter Mariane to Tartuffe.

* EngineeredPublicConfession: Tartuffe reveals his true colors to Mariane, unaware that Orgon is listening.

* {{Hoist by His Own Petard}}: [[spoiler:The documents Tartuffe reveals to the king contain proof to his real identity.]]

* MoralGuardian: Tartuffe acts like this in Orgon's house towards pretty much everything, from daily activities to fashion.
* OnlySaneMan: Cléante, Orgon's brother-in-law, represents common sense. The argument could also be made that this trope is inverted, and Orgon is the Only Dumb Man.

* TakeThat: Against [[EvilJesuit casuistry]].