Two Voltairean Plays: The Triumvirate and Comedy at Ferney

Set in Roman times, Voltaire''s play THE TRIUMVIRATE details a meeting on an island between Anthony and Octavian, in which the two main players in the post-Caesar Roman world decide how to divide up the spoils of war--and eliminate all potential rivals. Anthony agrees to divorce his wife Fulvia and marry Octavian''s sister; and Octavian wants to marry Julia, Lucius''s daughter, who loves Sextus Po...