Critical Essays on Dramatic Poetry
by Voltaire
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217403047
Paperback|9780217403047
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1761. Excerpt: ... Of Shakespeare j and the Taste of the English in their Theatrical Entertainments. i In a Preface to the Tragedy of Caesar, 1738. WE give this edition of the tragedy of the' Death of Caesar, by Mr. de Voltaire, who, we can fasely fay, is the first that has made the English muses known in France. He translated into verse some years ago, several pasiage's out of the best poets of England, for the instruction of his friends; and, by that means, he induced many to learn the English; so that, now, this language is become familiar to men of letters. It is doing service to our minds to embellish them thus with the riches of foreign countries. Among the most singular extracts from the English poets that our friend translated for us, was the scene of Antony and the people of Rome, taken from the tragedy of Julius Caefar, which was wrote an hundred and fifty years ago This, in the original, is called the publisher's preface. S by the famous Shakespear, and acted to this day with such success on the theatres of London. We asked for the whole play, but it was impossible to translate if. Shakespear was a great genius, but he lived Ib a- ignorant age, and one finds ia all his pieces the barbarism of the times, much more than the genius of the writer. Mr. de-Voltaire, instead of translating the monstrous composition of Shakespear, wrote, in the English taste, this Julius Caefar, which we do now present to the public. This imitation is not like the Sir Politic of Mr. de St. Evremond, who, without any knowlege of the English stage, or being even acquainted with the language, published his Sir Politic, with an intent to make English comedy known so the Frepeh. It may be justly said of that comedy that it was neither ia the taste of the English, nqr of any other ..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217403047 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217403042 |
| Weight | 0.35 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.24 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 100 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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