The Henriade and Other Writings

Three plays in verse translation, led by Zaïre, the tragedy of a Christian captive who loves a Muslim sultan and Voltaire's biggest stage success. With The Death of Caesar and the comedy The Prodigal.

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Mahomet, his tragedy about religious fanaticism, alongside Oedipus, the play that launched his career in 1718, Mariamne, Amelia and Socrates. The volume shows Voltaire bringing his fight against intolerance to the stage.

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Four tragedies, from Mérope, a mother's struggle to save her son, to The Orphan of China, set at the court of Genghis Khan, and Brutus, a drama of Roman liberty. Each comes with Voltaire's own prefaces and letters.

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Voltaire's poetry in English: the Poem on the Lisbon Disaster, The Law of Nature, The Temple of Taste, The Battle of Fontenoy and dozens of shorter verses, epistles and epigrams.

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