Author: Robert LowensteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Voltaire as an Historian of Seventeenth-century French Drama
Author: Robert LowensteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Voltaire as an Historian of Seventeenth-century French Drama
Author: Robert LowenstienPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Voltaire as an historian of 17th century French Drama
Author: Robert LowensteinVoltaire as an Historian of Seventeenth-century French Drama
Author: Robert LowensteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Voltaire and the Theatre of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Marvin A. CarlsonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313029903
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
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.
Voltaire as an Historian of 17 Th-century French Drama
Author: Voltaire and the Theatre of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Marvin CarlsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, French
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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 o.
Voltaire as an Historimn of 17th-century French Drama
Author: The Profession of King in Seventeenth-century French Drama
Author: Maurice BaudinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV
Author: VoltairePublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
This carefully crafted ebook: "THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Voltaire had an enormous influence on the development of historiography through his demonstration of fresh new ways to look at the past. The Age of Louis XIV is one of his best-known histories. In this book, Voltaire is painting to posterity, not the actions of one man, Louis XIV, but more importantly the minds of men in the most enlightened age that ever was. François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a versatile writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. He was an outspoken advocate of several liberties, despite the risk this placed him in under the strict censorship laws of the time. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day.