When Paris Rejected Shakespeare: From Voltaire to the Odéon
Voltaire called Hamlet the work of a “drunken savage”. Then English actors played Shakespeare at the Odéon in 1827. A Left Bank walk through how Paris came round to him.
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Voltaire called Hamlet the work of a “drunken savage”. Then English actors played Shakespeare at the Odéon in 1827. A Left Bank walk through how Paris came round to him.