Contemporary copy of a single act comedy titled ‘Kelty’
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CMV36364
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NAF 2940 (fol.22), ‘XCIX Kallick – Fergus – Leçon paternelle: « Kelty » ou « Ketli… chez Voltaire au château de Ferney », comédie en un acte, en prose, mêlée de couplets.’
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Contemporary copy of a single act comedy titled ‘Kelty’
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Brief Summary:
Contemporary copy of a single act comedy titled ‘Kelty’, set in Voltaire’s home at the Château de Ferney.
Detailed Summary:
Harold Bruce has argued that this play was plagiarised by Saint-Hilaire in Un Proscrit chez Voltaire due to the striking similarities between the two pieces in terms of both the plot and the text itself. As this MS has too many variants, Bruce dismisses the idea that this is an early iteration of Saint-Hilaire’s later work.
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20 ff.
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Half-bound
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c.18th-19th
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Harold L. Bruce, ‘Period of Greatest Popularity of Voltaire’s Plays on the English Stage’, Modern Language Notes, 33, 1 (1918), p.20-23.
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