Socrates
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Imprisoned in the Bastille at the age of twenty-three for a criminal libel against the Regent of France, François-Marie Arouet was freed in 1718 with a new name, Voltaire, and the completed manuscript of his first play, Oedipe, which became a huge hit on the Paris stage in the same year. For the rest of his long and dangerously eventful life, this cadaverous genius shone with uninterrupted brilliance as one of the most famous men in the world. Revered, and occasionally reviled, in the royal courts of Europe, his literary outpourings and fearless campaigning against the medieval injustices of church and state in the midst of the ‘Enlightenment’ did much to trigger the French Revolution and to formulate the present notions of democracy. But above all, Voltaire was an observer of the human condition, and his masterpiece Candide stands out as an astonishing testament to his unequalled insight into the way we were and probably always will be.
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Socrates - . Voltaire
Socrates
Voltaire
Translation by William F. Fleming
Wilder Publications, Inc.
Copyright © 2014
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Table of Contents
Dramatis Personæ
ACT I.
SCENE I.
SCENE II.
SCENE III.
SCENE IV.
SCENE V.
SCENE VI.
SCENE VII.
ACT II.
SCENE I.
SCENE II.
SCENE III.
SCENE IV.
SCENE V.
SCENE VI.
SCENE VII.
SCENE VIII.
SCENE IX.
SCENE X.
SCENE XI.
ACT III.
SCENE I.
SCENE II.
SCENE III.
SCENE the LAST
Socrates
Dramatis Personæ
Socrates.
Anitus, High Priest of Ceres.
Melitus, one of the Judges of Athens.
Xantippe, Wife of Socrates.
Aglae, a young Athenian Lady, brought up by Socrates.
Sophronimus, a young Athenian Gentleman, brought up by Socrates.
Drixa, Terpander, Acros, Friends of Anitus.
Judges, Disciples of Socrates, and three Pedants, Protected by Anitus.
ACT I.
SCENE I.
Anitus, Drixa, Terpander, Acros.
Anitus
My dear confidante, and you my trusty friends, you well know how much money I have put into your pockets this last feast of Ceres: I am now going to be married, and I hope you will all do your respective duties on this great occasion.
Drixa
That, my lord, we most certainly shall, provided you give us an opportunity of getting a little more by it.
Anitus
I shall want of you, Madam Drixa, two fine Persian carpets; from you, Terpander, I must have two large silver candlesticks; and from you, half a dozen robes.
Terpander
A considerable demand, my lord; but there is nothing which we would not do to merit your holy protection.
Anitus
O you will be rewarded for it a hundred fold: ’tis the best means to gain the favor of the gods: give much, and much you shall receive; but above all fail not, I beseech you, to stir up the people against all the rich and great, who are deficient in paying their vows, and presenting their offerings.
Acros
On that, my lord, you may depend; it is a duty too sacred ever to be neglected by us.
Anitus
’Tis well, my friends; may heaven continue to inspire you with the same just and pious sentiments, and be assured you will prosper; you, your children, and your children’s children, to all posterity.
Terpander
You have said it, my lord, and therefore it must be so.
SCENE II.
Anitus, Drixa.
Anitus
Well, my dear Drixa, I believe you will have no objection to my marrying Aglae; I shall not love you the less, and we may still live together as we used