The Island of Slaves

The Island of Slaves
Author: Pierre de Marivaux
Publisher: Oberon Books
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2002-09
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Four people, the sole survivors of a shipwreak, climb out of the sea. Two of them are masters, and two of them are servants; and all four are about to discover what life feels like when the boot is on the other foot.

Isle of Slaves and Other Plays

Isle of Slaves and Other Plays
Author: Pierrie de Marivaux
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2013-04-26
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1479409855

Here are three French plays from the Enlightenment Period dealing with the subject of slavery. ISLE OF SLAVES, by Pierre de Marivaux, is the longest and most challenging of the three. It postulates an island in the ancient Greek world where the slaves have revolted and seized power, killing all of their former masters and declaring their independence. Now, any "masters" shipwrecked on their island are forced to live as slaves of their own slaves to impress upon them the wrongs they've committed. THE MERCHANT OF SMYRNA, by Nicolas Chamfort, and THE BEAUTIFUL SLAVE, by Antoine-Jean Dumaniant, both deal with the pain that Christian and Muslim lovers experience when one (or both) of them are captured and sold into slavery--and then are fortuitously freed by their new owners or through their own efforts. These dramas represent early moral judgments in the late eighteenth century on the evils of slavery, and as such, are important milestones in the history of European drama.

A History of French Literature

A History of French Literature
Author: Edward Dowden
Publisher: Books for Libraries
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1897
Genre: History
ISBN:

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