Francois-Maire Arouet

"This Comedy is called in the French Nanine ou le Préjugé Vaincu (Nanine or Prejudice Overcome). It is written as we are told in the title-page in verses of ten syllables. The absurdity of comedies in rhyme I have already remarked. The original begins thus: Il faut parler il faut Monsieur le Comt...

Orestes was produced in 1750 an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama:"We should not I acknowledge endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancie...