Shakespeare Among the French Romantics
One way to take the temperature of a society in crisis
In 1776, Voltaire penned a letter to the Académie Française. His subject was Shakespeare, his mood grim. He was responding to a new translation into French of the playwright’s work, still little known to France.
In the context of the French Enlightenment, Shakespeare came as a shock. Instead of dramatizing nobility of ...
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