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Tartuffe: who’s in each scene

Molière (tr. Curtis Hidden Page) · 1664

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Scenes

Speaking roles

Groups / ensemble

Scene × character grid

● speaks · ○ on stage, no lines. Weight compares each scene’s length to the play’s typical scene.

Scene	Weight	Madame Pernelle	Elmire	Damis	Mariane	Cléante	Dorine	Flipotte	Orgon	Valère	Tartuffe	Mr. Loyal	A Police Officer
Act 1 Scene 1Orgon's house, Paris	heavy	●	●	●	●	●	●	○
Act 1 Scene 2Orgon's house, Paris	normal					●	●
Act 1 Scene 3Orgon's house, Paris	light		●	○	○	●	○
Act 1 Scene 4Orgon's house, Paris	light			●		○	●
Act 1 Scene 5Orgon's house, Paris	normal					●	●		●
Act 1 Scene 6Orgon's house, Paris	heavy					●			●
Act 2 Scene 1Orgon's house, Paris	light				●				●
Act 2 Scene 2Orgon's house, Paris	heavy				●		●		●
Act 2 Scene 3Orgon's house, Paris	heavy				●		●
Act 2 Scene 4Orgon's house, Paris	heavy				●		●			●
Act 3 Scene 1Orgon's house, Paris	normal			●			●
Act 3 Scene 2Orgon's house, Paris	light						●				●
Act 3 Scene 3Orgon's house, Paris	heavy		●								●
Act 3 Scene 4Orgon's house, Paris	normal		●	●							○
Act 3 Scene 5Orgon's house, Paris	light		●	●					○		○
Act 3 Scene 6Orgon's house, Paris	heavy			●					●		●
Act 3 Scene 7Orgon's house, Paris	normal								●		●
Act 4 Scene 1Orgon's house, Paris	heavy					●					●
Act 4 Scene 2Orgon's house, Paris	light		○		○	○	●
Act 4 Scene 3Orgon's house, Paris	heavy		●		●	●	●		●
Act 4 Scene 4Orgon's house, Paris	light		●						●
Act 4 Scene 5Orgon's house, Paris	heavy		●						○		●
Act 4 Scene 6Orgon's house, Paris	light		●						●
Act 4 Scene 7Orgon's house, Paris	light		●						●		●
Act 4 Scene 8Orgon's house, Paris	light		●						●
Act 5 Scene 1Orgon's house, Paris	fuller					●			●
Act 5 Scene 2Orgon's house, Paris	light			●		●			●
Act 5 Scene 3Orgon's house, Paris	heavy	●	●	●	○	●	●		●
Act 5 Scene 4Orgon's house, Paris	heavy	○	○	●	○	●	●		●			●
Act 5 Scene 5Orgon's house, Paris	light	●	●	○	○	●	●		●
Act 5 Scene 6Orgon's house, Paris	normal	○	○	○	○	●	○		●	●
Act 5 Scene 7Orgon's house, Paris	heavy	●	●	●	●	●	●		●	○	●		●
Act 5 Scene 8Orgon's house, Paris	light	○	○	○	○	●	○		●	○

Cast size and doubling

11 speaking roles.

Mr. Loyal (Act 5 Scene 4 only) and the Police Officer (Act 5 Scene 7 only) never share a scene.
Valère and Mr. Loyal never share a scene.
Flipotte (Act 1 Scene 1 only) never shares a scene with Valère, Mr. Loyal or the Police Officer.
Tartuffe and Mr. Loyal never share a scene.

Heaviest scenes

Work these early and often:

Act 1 Scene 1 — 6 speaking, about 181 lines
Act 1 Scene 6 — 2 speaking, about 183 lines
Act 2 Scene 2 — 3 speaking, about 174 lines

Characters

Madame Pernelle — Orgon's mother
Elmire — Orgon's wife
Damis — Orgon's son
Mariane — Orgon's daughter
Cléante — Orgon's brother-in-law
Dorine — Mariane's maid
Flipotte — Madame Pernelle's servant
Orgon — Head of the household, Elmire's husband
Valère — Mariane's suitor
Tartuffe — A guest in Orgon's house
Mr. Loyal — A bailiff
A Police Officer — An officer sent by the King

Edition: Project Gutenberg eBook #2027: Tartuffe; or, The Hypocrite, English blank-verse translation by Curtis Hidden Page (first published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1908). Breakdown derived from this text. Public domain in the United States. Breakdown only — no text of the play is reproduced here.