Later References
- Tartuffe influenced Gresset's Le Méchant, which also includes a cynical guest trying to take advantage of his host.
- A copy of the play, along with Paradise Lost, is shown in an illustration from Charles Dickens' novel Martin Chuzzlewit, in chapter 52, titled "Warm reception of Mr. Pecksniff by his venerable friend," wherein Pecksniff, a great hypocrite, is finally given his due.
- In the television show King of the Hill, Bobby Hill assumes the identity of a character he calls "Tartuffe, the Spry Wonder Dog," in the episode "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Clown."
- Friedrich Nietzsche is noted for his frequent use of the term "tartuffery" (German: Tartufferie) as a preferred synonym for hypocrisy of any kind.
- In the television show Psych, Season 6 Episode 10, "Indiana Shawn and the Temple of the Kinda Crappy, Rusty Old Dagger," Shawn references "Tartuffe" as a name for a dog.
- In the 1939 movie You Can't Cheat an Honest Man Archibald Bel-Goodie calls Whipsnade an "egregious Tartuffle".
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