Editing Brave New World (section)

==Title==
The title ''Brave New World'' derives from [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Tempest]]'', Act V, Scene I, [[Miranda (The Tempest)|Miranda]]'s speech:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml |title=Brave New World |last=Anon |work=In Our Time |publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=9 April 2009}}</ref>
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O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in 't.|William Shakespeare|''The Tempest'', Act V, Scene I, ll. 203–206<ref>{{cite book |title=William Shakespeare: Complete Works |year=2007 |last1=Bate |first1=Jonathan |author-link1=Jonathan Bate |last2=Rasmussen |first2=Eric |others=[[Royal Shakespeare Company|The Royal Shakespeare Company]]. Chief Associate Editor: Héloïse Sénéchal |isbn=978-0-230-00350-7 |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan Publishers Ltd]] |page=47}}</ref>}} Shakespeare's use of the phrase is intended ironically, as the speaker is failing to recognise the evil nature of the island's visitors because of her innocence.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Ira Grushow|title=Brave New World and The Tempest|journal=College English|date=October 1962|volume=24|number=1|pages=42–45|jstor = 373846|doi = 10.2307/373846 |issn = 0010-0994}}</ref> Indeed, the next speaker—Miranda's father Prospero—replies to her innocent observation with the statement {{"'}}Tis new to thee".

Translations of the title often allude to similar expressions used in domestic works of literature: the French edition of the work is entitled ''Le Meilleur des mondes'' (''The Best of All Worlds''), an allusion to an expression used by the philosopher [[Gottfried Leibniz]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Martine de Gaudemar|title=La Notion de nature chez Leibniz: colloque|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-1z1FQeK_kIC&pg=PA77|year=1995|publisher=Franz Steiner Verlag|isbn=978-3-515-06631-0|pages=77}}</ref> and satirised in ''[[Candide|Candide, Ou l'Optimisme]]'' by [[Voltaire]] (1759). The first [[Standard Chinese]] translation, done by novelist Lily Hsueh and Aaron Jen-wang Hsueh in 1974, is entitled "美麗新世界" ([[Pinyin]]: ''Měilì Xīn Shìjiè'', literally "''Beautiful New World''").