{"id":1664,"date":"2017-09-22T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1664-tartuffe.html"},"modified":"2017-09-23T01:35:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T15:05:11","slug":"tartuffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1664-tartuffe.html","title":{"rendered":"Tartuffe"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2296 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"673\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1496-_MG_9525.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe French playwright Moli\u00e8re wrote &#8216;Tartuffe&#8217; in 1664. Now more than 350 years later this young troupe of performers on the streets of Edinburgh were hawking their performance of Moli\u00e8re&#8217;s famous play as part of the Edinburgh Festival.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAt first I just saw a young group of performers in costume full of the vitality of the festival. Then I discovered the play and then the man who wrote it, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Moli\u00e8re.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe more I read about Moli\u00e8re the more I became fascinated with the man&#8217;s life and his pursuit of his passion for theater at the expense of a comfortable high society Parisian life.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI now wish I&#8217;d gone to see these young artists perform Tartuffe at the festival (the biggest scandal of Moli\u00e8re&#8217;s life&#8217;s work) .<br \/>\n<br \/>\nStill I am happy they walked past in the rain, stopped for a photo and introduced me to an extraordinary part of French history.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPhoto: Robert Rath, &#8216;Tartuffe&#8217;, 1\/500s f\/3.5 ISO320 70mm<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French playwright Moli\u00e8re wrote &#8216;Tartuffe&#8217; in 1664. Now more than 350 years later this young troupe of performers on the streets of Edinburgh were hawking their performance of Moli\u00e8re&#8217;s famous play as part of the Edinburgh Festival. At first I just saw a young group of performers in costume full of the vitality of &#8230; <a title=\"Tartuffe\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1664-tartuffe.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tartuffe\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}