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Billy Budd: A Synopsis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

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Extract

When the curtain rises Captain Edward Fairfax Vere, former commander of His Majesty's Ship Indomitable, now on old man, is reflecting on life as experience has shown it to him—a confusion of good and evil, and the good never perfect. Trying to guide others, Vere was lost himself. Yet he has been blessed, been saved. By whom? He recalls an event in the summer of 1797, during the French wars, and after the Mutiny at the Nore. The stage begins to lighten and his thought takes visible shape in

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Research Article
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Tempo , Issue 21 , Autumn 1951 , pp. 12 - 21
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1951

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References

* “The Rights of Man” was the title of a book by the English revolutionary writer Thomas Payne, which enjoyed wide currency at this time.