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Article: "Look on fertile France": French theater in Shakespeare's time.(Early modern drama around the world: the state of study--II)
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- Shakespeare Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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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 a duke, and challenging him to a duel. Voltaire had begun his literary career not as a ...
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