"Look on fertile France": French theater in Shakespeare's time.(Early modern drama around the world: the state of study--II)

Shakespeare Studies | January 1, 2004| | Copyright

SHAKESPEARE'S WORK has had a profound impact on writers everywhere, and France is no exception. (1) Flaubert wrote to his mistress Louise Colet, "When I read Shakespeare, I become greater, more intelligent, and more pure. Having reached the summit of one of his works, it seems to me that I am on a high mountain. Everything disappears, and everything appears. I am no longer a man. I am an eye. New horizons surge up..." (2) Another major French writer, Voltaire, came to familiarize himself with Shakespeare's work when he was exiled to England in 1726, for the crime of insulting ...

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