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Voltaire's La Mort de César : a play entirely in the English taste?

In the preface to La Mort de Cesar (1736), Voltaire claimed to have written a tragedy inspired by Julius Caesar that, while not resembling Shakespeare's play, was entirely in the English taste. Such a claim has so far gone virtually unnoticed in scholarly circles, despite its intriguing nature. Furthermore, La Mort de Cesar is commonly referred to as a cornerstone in the European reception of Shakespeare's drama even though, according to Voltaire, his play was far removed from the barbaric, tasteless and therefore untranslatable Julius Caesar. If, for Voltaire, Shakespeare's dramatic taste(les.

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