Merope: A French Classical Tragedy of Royal Identity, Maternal Grief, and Revenge - Softcover

Voltaire; Fleming, William F.

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ISBN 10: 1617202541 ISBN 13: 9781617202544

Verlag: Wilder Publications, 2011

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Merope is Voltaire's classical tragedy of royal identity, maternal grief, political danger, and the violent recovery of justice. Drawn from the ancient story of Merope, queen of Messenia, the play centres on a mother who believes her son lost, a usurper who threatens both throne and family, and a young stranger whose hidden lineage changes the fate of a kingdom. Voltaire shapes the material into a disciplined eighteenth-century tragedy: formal, urgent, politically alert, and emotionally concentrated. The drama's force lies in its collision of private anguish and public power, as Merope's maternal devotion becomes inseparable from questions of legitimacy, tyranny, succession, and revenge. For readers of French classical drama, Enlightenment literature, tragic theatre, and adaptations of ancient myth, Merope offers a clear example of Voltaire's dramatic ambition beyond his philosophical and satirical writings.

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Francois-Marie Arouet was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian who lived from November 21, 1694, to May 30, 1778. He was better known by the pen name M. de Voltaire. Voltaire fought for free speech, religious freedom, and the separation of church and state. He was known for his wit and his criticism of Christianity (especially the Roman Catholic Church) and slavery. It is said that Voltaire wrote a lot of different kinds of writing, such as plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, and even science explanations. He wrote greater than twenty thousand letters and two thousand books and leaflets. Voltaire was one of the first writers to become famous and make a lot of money around the world. He spoke out for civil rights and was always in danger because of the strict censorship laws of the Catholic French monarchy. In his polemics, he made fun of prejudice, religious dogma, and the French institutions of the time in a very harsh way. Candide, his most famous and important work, is a short story that makes fun of many events, philosophers, and ideas popular at the time. Its main target is Gottfried Leibniz's idea that our world is the "best of all possible worlds."

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• Verlag: Wilder Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1617202541
• ISBN 13: 9781617202544
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 62
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