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Two Plays by Denis Diderot

The Illegitimate Son and The Father of the Family- Translated with an Introduction by Kiki Gounaridou and John Hellweg

Kiki Gounaridou author John Hellweg author Michael G Paulson editor Tamara Alvarez-Detrell editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Published:26th Mar '11

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Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was one of the French philosophers and writers of the Enlightenment. This volume contains the first English translations of his plays, The Illegitimate Son and The Father of the Family. These complex and very entertaining plays delve into the attitudes of the middle-class, bourgeois society and reveal an eighteenth-century «suburbia» that populates dramatic and suspenseful situations and settings. The translations are vivid and contemporary and bring the plays alive to early twenty-first-century stage and culture.

ISBN: 9781433113635

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 370g

175 pages

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