Isle of Slaves and Other Plays
Here are three French plays from the Enlightenment Period dealing with the subject of slavery. ISLE OF SLAVES, by Pierre de Marivaux, is the longest and most challenging of the three. It postulates an island in the ancient Greek world where the slaves have revolted and seized power, killing all of their former masters and declaring their independence. Now, any masters shipwrecked on their island are forced to live as slaves of their own slaves to impress upon them the wrongs they've committed. THE MERCHANT OF SMYRNA, by Nicolas Chamfort, and THE BEAUTIFUL SLAVE, by Antoine-Jean Dumaniant, both deal with the pain that Christian and Muslim love…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4794-0985-3
- EAN: 9781479409853
- Produktnummer: 14841634
- Verlag: Wildside Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 166 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
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