Molière’s famous comedies scandalize Paris and dramatize themes from French moralism, especially the danger of hypocrisy.

• M. Slater (trans.), Molière: The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays (Oxford: 2008).

• R. Wilbur (trans.), Molière: The Misanthrope and Tartuffe (New York: 1954).

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• D. Bradby and R: McBride (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Molière (Cambridge: 2007).

• A. Calder, Molière: the Theory and Practice of Comedy (London: 1993).

• A. Calder, “Humour in the 1660s: La Rochefoucauld, Molière and La Fontaine,” Seventeenth-Century French Studies 20 (1998), 125-38.

• E.S. Chill, “Tartuffe, Religion, and Courtly Culture,” French Historical Studies 3 (1963), 151-83.

• L. Gossman, Men and Masks: a Study of Molière (Baltimore: 1963).

• L. Gossman, “Molière and Tartuffe: Law and Order in the Seventeenth Century,” French Review 43 (1970), 901-12.

• M. Gutwirth, Laughing Matter: An Essay on the Comic (Ithaca NY: 1993).

• R.D. Lalande, Intruders in the Play World: The Dynamics of Gender in Molière’s Comedies (Madison: 1996). 

• A. Lytton Sells, “Molière and La Mothe le Vayer,” Modern Language Review 28 (1933), 444-55.

• R. McBride, The Sceptical Vision of Molière (London: 1977).

• J.L. Robin, “Philosophical Influences,” in J. Clarke (ed.), Molière in Context (Cambridge: 2022), 71-80.