MacbethYale University Press, 01.01.2005 - 210 Seiten 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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... Ross comes on , looking as one “ should ... look / That seems to speak things strange ” ( 1.2.46–47 ) . Ross's account of battling the King of Norway maintains both Macbeth's glori- ous military standing and the scene's lofty rhetoric ...
... Ross comes on , looking as one “ should ... look / That seems to speak things strange ” ( 1.2.46–47 ) . Ross's account of battling the King of Norway maintains both Macbeth's glori- ous military standing and the scene's lofty rhetoric ...
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... struggle between good and evil , between God and Satan , is Macbeth on ? Shakespeare's audience could have had no doubt , by now , about this , either . Ross arrives ; the witches seem to have spoken truthfully xxix INTRODUCTION.
... struggle between good and evil , between God and Satan , is Macbeth on ? Shakespeare's audience could have had no doubt , by now , about this , either . Ross arrives ; the witches seem to have spoken truthfully xxix INTRODUCTION.
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... Ross for the welcome news and then immediately turn to Banquo and discuss ascendance to the throne : “ Do you not hope your children shall be kings , / When those that gave the Thane of Cawdor to me / Promised no less to them ? ” ( 1.3 ...
... Ross for the welcome news and then immediately turn to Banquo and discuss ascendance to the throne : “ Do you not hope your children shall be kings , / When those that gave the Thane of Cawdor to me / Promised no less to them ? ” ( 1.3 ...
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... Ross ( Scottish nobleman ) Menteith ( Scottish nobleman ) Angus ( Scottish nobleman ) Caithness ( Scottish nobleman ) Siward ( Earl of Northumberland and English general ) Young Siward ( his son ) Seyton ( servant to Macbeth ) Doctor ...
... Ross ( Scottish nobleman ) Menteith ( Scottish nobleman ) Angus ( Scottish nobleman ) Caithness ( Scottish nobleman ) Siward ( Earl of Northumberland and English general ) Young Siward ( his son ) Seyton ( servant to Macbeth ) Doctor ...
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... Ross, with Angus Who comes here?66 45 Malcolm The worthy Thane67 of Ross. Lennox What a haste looks through68 his eyes. So should he69 look That seems to speak things strange. Ross God save the king! Duncan Whence cam'st thou, worthy ...
... Ross, with Angus Who comes here?66 45 Malcolm The worthy Thane67 of Ross. Lennox What a haste looks through68 his eyes. So should he69 look That seems to speak things strange. Ross God save the king! Duncan Whence cam'st thou, worthy ...
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