Nanine
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| Title: | Nanine |
| Genus: | comedy |
| Original language: | French |
| Author: | Voltaire |
| Publishing year: | 1749 |
| Premiere: | June 16, 1749 in the Comédie-Française |
| Place of premiere: | Paris |
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Nanine with the title extended in 1763 Nanine, ou le Préjugé vaincu , is a sensitive comedy in three acts and in verse by Voltaire from 1748 . The play was premiered on June 16, 1749 in Paris under the direction of the author and published in book form in the same year.
action
The action takes place in the French provinces in the castle of Count d'Olban. The gardener Blaise asks for the hand of the orphan Nanine, who grew up in the castle. The count realizes that he loves Nanine himself. The difference in class stands in the way of a wedding. The scheming Baroness von Orme, who is working towards a marriage with the Count, tries to dispose of her rival in a monastery . After it turns out that Nanine is of aristocratic origin, the count's mother has to agree to the marriage.
Literary source and biographical references
Voltaire wrote his sensitive comedy Nanine influenced by the success of Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740). The first version was revised at the suggestion of Madame d'Argental. In the final version, the happy ending is due to the virtue of lovers and less to the rectification of the status. The Nanine is Voltaire's last stand-alone production in Paris before his permanent exile.
Performances and contemporary reception
The comedy was performed on June 16, 1749 at the Comédie-Française in the presence of the author. The audience reacted cautiously. From 1754 the piece was repeated on the repertoire and was performed repeatedly in honor of Voltaire in 1778.
Going to press
Nanine was revised by Voltaire after the publication of a pirated print, which was probably based on a manuscript stolen in Lunéville , and appeared in the first authorized edition in two identical editions by Mercier and Lambert in Paris in 1749. In 1763, Duchesne's new edition was expanded to include the title: Le Préjugé vaincu. The passage about the pirated prints is missing in the preface to this edition. In 1766 a Russian translation by IF Bogdanovic was published in St. Petersburg under the title Nanina .
Addition
In his foreword to the first authorized print of the Nanine , Voltaire described the piece as a bagatelle , in which he had inserted elements of the tragedy to arouse the confusion .
First editions
- Nanine, Comédie, En vers de dix dissillabes, Par Monsieur de V. Représenteée par les Comédiens ordinaires du Roi aux mois de Juin & Juillet 1749 , Paris, Par la Compagnie des Libraires Associés (pirated print probably Amiens, Godard), 12 °, 83 S.
- Nanine, comédie en 3 actes, en vers de dix syllabes, donnée par l'auteur , Paris, P.-G. Le Mercier and M. Lambert, 1749, 12 °, XVI (II), 92, (1) S. online
- Nanine, comédie en 3 actes, en vers de dix syllabes, donnée par l'auteur , La Haye, without printer, 1749, 12 °, 80 p. Online
- Nanine, ou l'Homme sans Préjugé, comédie en 3 actes et en Vers par M. de Voltaire , Vienna, Gehlen, 1753, 12 °, 79 p. Online
- Nanine, ou le Préjugé vaincu, comédie en 3 actes, en Vers de dix syllabes par M. de Voltaire, Représentée pour la première fois par les Comédiens français du Roi le 16 juin 1749 , Paris, Duchesne, 1763, 12 °, 96 pp .
literature
- Peter Hynes: From Richardson to Voltaire: Nanine and the novelization of comedy . The Eighteenth Century. Theory and Interpretation, Summer 1990, 117-135.
- Éric van der Schueren: Nanine , in: Dictionnaire Voltaire, Hachette Livre, 1994, p. 139.
- Siegfried Detemple: Nanine , in: Voltaire: The works. 300th birthday catalog. Reichert, Wiesbaden 1994, p. 90 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Siegfried Detemple: Nanine, in: Voltaire: The works. 300th birthday catalog. Reichert, Wiesbaden 1994, p. 91.
- ↑ Cf. Éric van der Schueren: Nanine , in: Dictionnaire Voltaire, Hachette Livre, 1994, p. 139.
- ^ Siegfried Detemple: Nanine , in: Voltaire: The works. 300th birthday catalog. Reichert, Wiesbaden 1994, p. 91.