This amusing satire, written in Latin interspersed with Greek coinages, was sent as a letter to Peacock's friend John Cam Hobhouse, Lord Broughton , on 12 March 1857. Broughton, in turn, translated Peacock's squib into English . Peacock's prediction of defeat for the coalition was largely borne out by the results of the ensuing general election. By William Brooks. Some authorities say the play was performed, whilst others say that the actors were expelled before it could be performed.
Contemporary evidence is vague or conflicting.
This can now be read as a categorical statement that the play was performed. By Andrew Brown. The relationship between Flaubert and Spinoza is a fraught one. In this he remains true to an innate scepticism about his own powers of reasoning and about the fate, in his own era, of ratio in general. Nettie Sutro's German Translation of Silone's Fontamara By Brian Moloney.