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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William Shakespeare. CONTENTS About This Book ix Introduction xix Some Essentials of the Shakespearean Stage xxxix Macbeth I An Essay by Harold Bloom 169 Further Reading 205 Finding List 209 ABOUT THIS BOOK n act 3 , scene 1 , contents.
William Shakespeare. CONTENTS About This Book ix Introduction xix Some Essentials of the Shakespearean Stage xxxix Macbeth I An Essay by Harold Bloom 169 Further Reading 205 Finding List 209 ABOUT THIS BOOK n act 3 , scene 1 , contents.
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... stage directions- and in some cases have added small directions , to indicate who is speaking to whom . I have made no emendations ; I have necessar- ily been obliged to make choices . Textual decisions have been an- notated when the ...
... stage directions- and in some cases have added small directions , to indicate who is speaking to whom . I have made no emendations ; I have necessar- ily been obliged to make choices . Textual decisions have been an- notated when the ...
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... 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 fiercely dangerous , socially subversive evil that everyone ...
... 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 fiercely dangerous , socially subversive evil that everyone ...
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William Shakespeare. and thus became , on the international stage , both a more visible and politically an even more important monarch . What are now the historically more dimmed , virtually forgot- ten , aspects of Macbeth's social and ...
William Shakespeare. and thus became , on the international stage , both a more visible and politically an even more important monarch . What are now the historically more dimmed , virtually forgot- ten , aspects of Macbeth's social and ...
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... stage , together with Banquo , he first speaks only a brief line : “ So foul and fair a day I have not seen " ( 1.3.39 ) . Early seventeenth - century ears immediately recognized the echoing of earlier witch words and knew exactly what ...
... stage , together with Banquo , he first speaks only a brief line : “ So foul and fair a day I have not seen " ( 1.3.39 ) . Early seventeenth - century ears immediately recognized the echoing of earlier witch words and knew exactly what ...
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