The two texts in this second volume of 'Voltaire editeur' show very different approaches to the works presented. Behind the playful title "Sophonisbe, tragedie de Mairet, reparee a neuf" lies a thorough critique of a classical style that has become, in Voltaire's view, unplayable. Not a line of the play remains untouched by the 'editor'. By contrast it is in the annotation of the "Discours de l'Empereur Julien contre les chretiens" that Voltaire pursues his campaign against l'Infame, claiming the Roman emperor for the band of Enlightenment philosophes.
- ISBN10 0729408256
- ISBN13 9780729408257
- Publish Date 7 June 2005
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Voltaire Foundation
- Edition Critical edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 499
- Language French
- URL http://voltaire.ox.ac.uk/book/voltaire-%C3%A9diteur-ii