English theatre in Enlightenment France [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
… of liberal, ‘occasionally mutilated or sugar coated,’ 5 even abridged, adaptations of plays plundered mainly from Shakespeare’s oeuvre. Though the productions were aesthetically ‘still entirely foreign to French sensibilities’ … allegiance of an audience gripped by an aestheticism that ‘exalted human sentiment.’ (Delon 279) Translators of Shakespeare such as Jean-François Ducis and Pierre Letourneur, 15 among others, would continue with this tradition into … sumʼ... Un vers de Térence comme devise des Lumières', Dix-huitième Siècle (n° 16, 1984), p. 291. 15 . See the entry on Shakespeare. 16 . See Annick Cossic-Péricarpin et Alain Kerhervé (dir.), La sociabilité en France et en Grande-Bretagne …
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