{"date":"February 17","id":"02-17","intro":["While acting in one of his own plays, Molière was suddenly stricken and died shortly after the final curtain. He took an important rôle in “Tartuffe” which introduces to literature a character as famous as Shakespeare’s Falstaff."],"minutes":19,"readings":[{"author":"Molière","end":217,"start":199,"volume":26,"work":"Tartuffe"}],"slug":"february-17","status":"proofread","title":"Death His Curtain Call","url":"/harvard-classics/february-17/","words":3719}