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DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. - Voltaire, The Works of Voltaire, Vol. IX The Dramatic Works Part 1 (Alzire, Orestes, Sémiramis, Catiline, Pandora) and Part II (The Scotch Woman, Nanine, The Prude, The Tatler). [1901]Edition used:From The Works of Voltaire, A Contemporary Version, (New York: E.R. DuMont, 1901), A Critique and Biography by John Morley, notes by Tobias Smollett, trans. William F. Fleming. Vol. IX The Dramatic Works Part 1 (Alzire, Orestes, Sémiramis, Catiline, Pandora) and Part II (The Scotch Woman, Nanine, The Prude, The Tatler).
Part of: The Works of Voltaire. A Contemporary Version, in 21 vols.
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DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.The Count d’Olban, a nobleman retired into the country. The Baroness de l’Orme, a relation of the Count’s, a haughty, imperious woman, of a bad temper, and disagreeable to live with. The Marchioness d’Olban, mother of the Count. Nanine, a young girl, brought up in the Count’s house. Philip Hombert, a peasant in the neighborhood. Blaise, the gardener.
Scene, the Count d’Olban’s country seat. 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:
The reader cannot but observe, what villainous rhymes Comte and Compte are, and perhaps will more readily forgive my reducing this comedy into plain prose. It was produced in 1749. |
