Voltaire Comic Dramatist

"Voltaire Comic Dramatist" is a literary study.

Summary

No two comedies of Voltaire are alike: the breadth and diversity of his comic dramaturgy in terms of form, technique, theme, characterisation and tone, are revealed in this first critical analysis and systematic reassessment of Voltaire’s eighteen comedies in their contemporary theatrical, literary and intellectual contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Russell Goulbourne
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.03.2006
• EAN: 9780729408752
• ISBN: 978-0-7294-0875-2
• No. of pages: 369
• Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment; Studies on Voltaire & the Eighteenth Century; Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies