Author: Harold Lawton Bruce
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Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Author: Harold Lawton Bruce
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Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Author: Harold Lawton Bruce
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781290043625
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author: Harold Lawton Bruce
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Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Author: Harold L. Bruce
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ISBN: 9780879915001
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Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Author: Marvin A. Carlson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313029903
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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Born in the final years of the seventeenth century, and dying a decade before the beginning of the French Revolution, Voltaire was a quintessential figure of the eighteenth century, so much so that this era is sometimes called the Age of Voltaire. At a time when French culture dominated Europe, Voltaire dominated French culture. His influence was broad and powerful, and he made major contributions to almost every sphere of intellectual activity, including the sciences, trade and commerce, politics, and especially the arts. Despite the astonishing range of his literary activities, the theatre occupied a central position in his life from the beginning of his career to its close. His first and last literary triumphs were plays, the first written when he was only 17, the last completed when he was 84. He created a total of 56, and there was rarely a time in his life when he was not working on a theatrical script. At the end of his career, his works were produced more frequently on the French stage than those of any other serious dramatist and served as models for aspiring young playwrights throughout Europe. Written by a leading authority on French theatre and culture in the eighteenth century, this book traces the theatrical career of Voltaire from his college days through his final works. The most influential dramatist of the period, he successfully wrote in a number of genres, including tragedy, comedy, opera, comic opera, and court spectacle. His theatrical biography involves all aspects of acting and staging in amateur and society theatre as well as on major professional stages and performances at court. His extended visits to England and Germany are covered in chapters that also provide an introduction to the theatre in those countries, and his international interests and correspondence provide insights into the eighteenth century theatre in places such as Italy, Russia, and Denmark. Due to his literally life-long concern with the theatre, his dominance in this art, and his reputation and involvement with the theatre outside France, Voltaire's theatrical biography is also in large measure a chronicle of the European stage of the eighteenth century.

Author: Harold Lawton Bruce
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267878246
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Excerpt from Voltaire on the English Stage The Priests of Asklepiosga New Method of Dating Athenian Archons; by William Scott Ferguson. Pp. 131-173 (reprinted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Voltaire
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Author: Jack Rochford Vrooman
Publisher: Genève : Institut et Musée Voltaire
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.

Author: Voltaire
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Languages : en
Pages : 328

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