It’s in Voltaire’s first year at Ferney that he arranges for Candide to be anonymously published. As literary critics have long remarked, Voltaire’s principal theme considerably dims and ...

A man of extraordinary energy and abilities, he produced some 100 volumes of poetry, fiction, theatre, biblical and literary criticism, history and philosophy. Among his myriad works, Voltaire’s ...

the literary dictator of Europe, Voltaire. The course of the unpleasantness between Shakespeare and M. Arouet was dramatic. During his early exile in England, the Frenchman, with the sensibility ...

“Generally, the moral content of earlier plays stressed love of God and king, patriotic duty and the like,” writes literary historian Marcus Allen. “In the hands of Voltaire ...

Ian Davidson reveals Voltaire's love of England and its literature ‘How I love the English boldness!,” Voltaire said. “How I love those who say what they think!” Superficially, this was a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook The Aix Festival is presenting a new version of “Samson,” a never-performed work by Rameau and Voltaire, two of France’s ...