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Some Views on Comedy

Some Views on Comedy

Comedy is poetry that transmutes a sad beginning into a happy ending.

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Boredom, Poverty, Vice

Boredom, Poverty, Vice

Voltaire’s Candide questions the best of all possible worlds that contain daily atrocities, iniquities, and disasters.

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Molière’s <i>Tartuffe</i>

Molière’s Tartuffe

An overriding theme of Molière’s Tartuffe is not one of religion directly, but of that age-old concern of comme il faut, propriety, and appearance versus reality.

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Romantic Literature

Romantic Literature

No simple label can describe the Romantic Age, for if anything the artists of this era were individualists.

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René

René

Nevertheless, I set forth all alone and tall of, spirit on the stormy ocean of the world, though I knew neither its safe ports nor its perilous reefs.

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