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Britain's indifference to Molière's 400th is no surprise but it's still shameful | Michael Billington by Michael Billington

Despite some clever reimaginings of Tartuffe, UK stages remain depressingly inattentive to one of the greatest playwrights In France the 400th anniversary of Molière's birth is being celebrated in a big way. In Britain it has been greeted with a deafening silence. But then we have always been slightly wary of Molière. It is partly that we lack the histrionic tradition that led CE Montague to write that watching Fre…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AM on January 18, 2022

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