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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... kind of syntactic stop we associate , today , with the colon . It is therefore inappropriate to substitute editorial commas for Folio colons . It is also inappropriate to employ edito- rial colons when their syntactic usage of colons ...
... kind of syntactic stop we associate , today , with the colon . It is therefore inappropriate to substitute editorial commas for Folio colons . It is also inappropriate to employ edito- rial colons when their syntactic usage of colons ...
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... kind of infection of language itself . At times , indeed , it almost seems as if Shakespeare is so at one with his sub- ject that he finds it hard to say virtually anything of importance in straight , unequivocal terms . Equivocation ...
... kind of infection of language itself . At times , indeed , it almost seems as if Shakespeare is so at one with his sub- ject that he finds it hard to say virtually anything of importance in straight , unequivocal terms . Equivocation ...
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... kind of unnatural inversion these witches proclaim in the final line of scene 1 , “ Fair is foul , and foul is fair ” ( 1.1.12 ) . There was nothing casual , nor anything merely pictorial about such inversions . Shakespeare's audience ...
... kind of unnatural inversion these witches proclaim in the final line of scene 1 , “ Fair is foul , and foul is fair ” ( 1.1.12 ) . There was nothing casual , nor anything merely pictorial about such inversions . Shakespeare's audience ...
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... prepubescent boys. The Audience • London's professional theater operated in what might be called a “red-light” district, featuring brothels, restaurants, and ESSENTIALS OF SHAKESPEAREAN STAGE the kind of open - air xl.
... prepubescent boys. The Audience • London's professional theater operated in what might be called a “red-light” district, featuring brothels, restaurants, and ESSENTIALS OF SHAKESPEAREAN STAGE the kind of open - air xl.
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William Shakespeare. ESSENTIALS OF SHAKESPEAREAN STAGE the kind of open - air entertainment then most popular , like bear- baiting ( in which a bear , tied to a stake , was set on by dogs ) . • A theater audience , like most of the ...
William Shakespeare. ESSENTIALS OF SHAKESPEAREAN STAGE the kind of open - air entertainment then most popular , like bear- baiting ( in which a bear , tied to a stake , was set on by dogs ) . • A theater audience , like most of the ...
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