Two Plays by Denis Diderot : The Illegitimate Son and The Father of the Family Translated with an Introduction by Kiki Gounaridou and John Hellweg

Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was one of the French philosophers and writers of the Enlightenment. This volume contains the first English translations of his plays, "The Illegitimate Son" and "The Father of the Family". These complex and very entertaining plays delve into the attitudes of the middle-class, bourgeois society and reveal an eighteenth-century suburbia that populates dramatic and suspense...