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Le Theatre anglois.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Collection 97.42 1746 v.1-8
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Translations into French.
- English drama.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.
- French drama--Translations from English.
- French drama.
- Physical Description:
- 8 volumes : portrait ; 17 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Londres [that is, Paris?] : [publisher not identified], [1746-1749]
- Contents:
- Vol. 1. Discours sur le theatre anglois. Vie de Shakespeare. Othello ... de Shakespeare. Henry VI ... de Shakespeare
- v. 2. La vie et la mort de Richard III ... de Shakespeare. Hamlet ... de Shakespeare. Macbeth ... de Shakespeare
- v. 3. Cymbeline ... de Shakespeare. Jules-Cesar ... de Shakespeare. Antoine et Cleopatra ... de Shakespeare. Analyses, ou sommaires, des tragedies, ou places historiques, de Shakespeare, non traduites
- v. 4. Timon ... de Shakespeare. Les femmes de bonne humeur ... de Shakespeare. La pucelle ... / Fletcher. Analyses, ou sommaires des tragi-comedies, et comedies, de Shakespeare, non traduites
- v. 5. Catilina ... / B. Johnson. La belle penitents ... / N. Rowe. Venise sauvee ... / T. Otway
- v. 6. Aureng-zeb ... / J. Dryden. L'epouse en deuil ... / W. Congreve. Tamerlan ... / N. Rowe
- v. 7. La siege de Damas ... / J. Hughes. Busiris ... / E. Young. Amour par amour ... / W. Congreve
- v. 8. L'adultere innocent ... / T. Southerne. Canton ... / J. Addison. Les funerailles ... / R. Steele.
- Notes:
- A selection of English plays, translated by: Pierre Antoine de La Place. Cf. Barbier.
- Title vignettes.
- Title pages in red and black.
- Tomes I-IV, 1746 ; tomes V, VI, 1747 ; tomes VII, VIII, 1749.
- Bohn (A bibliographical account of the works of Shakespeare) lists each of the Shakespeare plays in this edition as first French translations. The translator was Pierre-Antoine de La Place.
- Cited in:
- Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes, v. 3, item 17703.
- OCLC:
- 10351479
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