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Tartuffe, or The Impostor, or The Hypocrite (/ t ɑːr ˈ t ʊ f,-ˈ t uː f /; [1] French: Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur, pronounced [taʁtyf u lɛ̃pɔstœʁ]), first performed in 1664, is a theatrical comedy (or more specifically, a farce) by Molière. The characters of Tartuffe, Elmire, and Orgon are considered among the greatest classical ...
Mahomet the Imposter is a 1744 tragedy by the British writer James Miller. His final play, it was inspired by the 1736 French work Mahomet by Voltaire . It was Miller's only tragedy, as his other works were sentimental comedies . [ 1 ]
The play is inspired by the March 1979 arrest of Zhang Quanlong (张泉龙), a young man who impersonated the son of Li Da, deputy of the People's Liberation Army General Staff Department. As the play exposed corruption in the establishment and lampooned the impostor's "victims", there was considerable debate among the literary circles on ...
Voltaire had this correspondence published in every future edition of the play, which aided its publicity. [9] Napoleon, during his captivity on Saint Helena, criticised Voltaire's Mahomet, and said Voltaire had made him merely an impostor and a tyrant, without representing him as a "great man": Mahomet was the subject of deep criticism ...
Among Us is a 2018 online multiplayer social deduction game developed and published by American game studio Innersloth. The game allows for cross-platform play; it was released on iOS and Android devices in June 2018 and on Windows later that year in November.
Impostor (short story), a 1953 science fiction story by Philip K. Dick; The Imposter, a 1927 novel by the French writer Georges Bernanos "The Imposter" (short story), a 1997 story by Nathanael West; The Impostor, a 1977 novel by Helen McCloy; The Impostors, a 1789 play by Richard Cumberland; El Impostor , a 2014 novel by Javier Cercas
Imposters is an American dark comedy television series. The show premiered February 7, 2017, on the Bravo cable network with a 10-episode season. [2] Announced in April 2015 as My So Called Wife, [3] the series follows con artist Maddie, played by Inbar Lavi, who gets involved in relationships with men and women before leaving them "used and robbed of everything – including their hearts". [4]
The Imposter is a 2012 documentary film about the 1997 case of a French confidence trickster Frédéric Bourdin, who pretended to be Nicholas Patrick Barclay, an American boy who had disappeared in Texas at the age of 13 in 1994. The film was directed by Bart Layton. It mainly includes interviews with Bourdin but also with members of Barclay's ...