Literature · Drama & Theatre Literature
A topic within Drama & Theatre Literature, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Literature.
2 works
Molière
A pious fraud who talks his way into a household's trust and near-destruction, staged to argue that hypocrisy dressed as devotion is more dangerous than open vice — a case so pointed the play was banned for five years.
about 75 minutes to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026Jean Racine
A queen consumed by an incestuous passion for her stepson destroys herself and him once forced to name it aloud, compressed into strict classical unity of time and place to argue that reason is powerless against a passion the gods themselves have decreed.
about 55 minutes to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026