Her eyes are sunk in darkness: help the king And guard his life. Learn from her sad example, That heaven is witness to our secret crimes: The higher is the criminal, remember, The gods inflict the greater punishment; Kings, tremble on your thrones, and fear their justice. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the environment.

Included in this omnibus edition are Candide, Zadig and seventeen of Voltaire's most important plays including Brutus, Socrates, Alzire, Orestes, Catiline, Semiramis, Pandora, The Scotch Woman, Nanine, The Prude, Merope, Olympia, The Orphan of China, Mahomet, Amelia, OEdipus, and Mariamne. During his life time Voltaire was far and away the most successful French playwright, these are the plays that cemented his popularity and made him a household name during his own lifetime. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep...

Included in this omnibus edition are seventeen of Voltaire's most important plays including Brutus, Socrates, Alzire, Orestes, Catiline, Semiramis, Pandora, The Scotch Woman, Nanine, The Prude, Merope, Olympia, The Orphan of China, Mahomet, Amelia, OEdipus, and Mariamne. During his life time Voltaire was far and away the most successful French playwright, these are the plays that cemented his popularity and made him a household name during his own lifetime. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while...

It is enough: the power of Salome, By all acknowledged, and by all obeyed, On its firm basis stands immovable: I fled to Azor, with the lightning's speed, Even from Samaria's plain to Jordan's spring, And quick returned: my presence there indeed Was needful, to cut off the aspiring hopes Of Israel's moody race: thy brother Herod, So long detained at Rome, was almost grown A stranger in his kingdom; and the people, Ever capricious, turbulent, and bold, Still to their kings unjust, aloud proclaimed, That Herod was condemned to slavery By haughty Rome; and Mariamne, raised To the high rank of...

This tragedy is founded on historical truth. A duke of Brittany, in the year 1387, commanded the lord of Bavalan to assassinate the constable of Clisson: Bavalan, the day after, told the duke it was done: the duke becoming sensible of the horror of his crime, and apprehensive of the fatal consequences of it, abandoned himself to the most violent despair: Bavalan, after giving him time to repent, at length told him that he had loved him well enough to disobey his orders. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices...

This tragedy was produced in 1730. It marks Voltaire's spirit of daring in treating a subject from which Shakespeare shrank as, perhaps, too painful for representation. When revived during the Revolution it was enthusiastically applauded. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the environment.

Yet it is too soon. When I possess the crown, your faithful eyes Shall be the witnesses of all my deeds. Stay in this porch, the priestesses to-day Present Olympia to the powers divine: This day in secret she must expiate, Sins which are even to herself unknown. This day a better life I shall begin. O dear Olympia, may you never know The heinous crime that's hardly yet effaced, To whom your birth you owe, what blood I've shed. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on...