MacbethYale University Press, 2005. jan. 1. - 210 oldal In this new translation of Voltaire's Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novel's irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel re-creates Voltaire's stylistic brilliance by casting the novel into an English idiom that, had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American, he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers. Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cungegonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaire's philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as Gottfried Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaire's life and work and the Age of Enlightenment. |
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... first - century minds have no business , in such matters , overruling seventeenth - century ones . Whoever the com- positors were , they were more or less Shakespeare's contempo- raries , and we are not . Accordingly , when the original ...
... first - century minds have no business , in such matters , overruling seventeenth - century ones . Whoever the com- positors were , they were more or less Shakespeare's contempo- raries , and we are not . Accordingly , when the original ...
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... first- century English have been added, in parentheses • Annotations of repeated words are not repeated. Explanations of the first instance of such common words are followed by the sign✭. Readers may easily track down the first ...
... first- century English have been added, in parentheses • Annotations of repeated words are not repeated. Explanations of the first instance of such common words are followed by the sign✭. Readers may easily track down the first ...
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William Shakespeare. either in the probably first version of the play , in 1606 , or in the later , revised versions that appear to have been produced . There can be ( and has been ) no end to speculation . INTRODUCTION L ike Hamlet ...
William Shakespeare. either in the probably first version of the play , in 1606 , or in the later , revised versions that appear to have been produced . There can be ( and has been ) no end to speculation . INTRODUCTION L ike Hamlet ...
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... first moments of the play , when the three witches take the stage — commanding it , for they have it completely to themselves — Shakespeare's audience was fully aware that the dra- matic force of these three presences originated from a ...
... first moments of the play , when the three witches take the stage — commanding it , for they have it completely to themselves — Shakespeare's audience was fully aware that the dra- matic force of these three presences originated from a ...
xxi. oldal
... first century , every bit as bedeviling as the words of equivocators seemed to the men and women of the early seven- teenth century . We are not as shocked ( or as betrayed ) as England then felt itself . But we can often be ...
... first century , every bit as bedeviling as the words of equivocators seemed to the men and women of the early seven- teenth century . We are not as shocked ( or as betrayed ) as England then felt itself . But we can often be ...
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annotations Apparition Banquo beth bird blood Burton Raffel castle enter Christian crown dagger dare dead death deed devil died hereafter Doctor Donalbain Duncan Dunsinane England English ENTER LADY MACBETH enter Macbeth equivocator evil EXEUNT EXIT father fear fight Fleance Gentlewoman Give Glamis gnostic Gunpowder Plot hail Hamlet hand hath hear heart heaven Hecat hell honor horror Iago imagination Jesuits killed King Lear King of Scotland knock Lady Macbeth Lady Macduff Lennox look lord Macbeth and Banquo Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth's castle Macduff's son magic Malcolm meaning mind Moby-Dick Murderer nature night noun play Porter proleptic royal scene Scotland Scottish nobleman seems sense Servant Seyton Shake Shakespeare Shakespeare's audience Siward sleep soldier speak strange supernatural Thane of Cawdor thee things thou thought tomorrow University Press verb Weird Sisters wife Wilson Knight witches words worthy Young Siward