category: french drama

Dramatization of French Short Stories in the Eighteenth Century: With Special Reference to the "Contes" of La Fontaine, Marmontel, and Voltaire

... molinero viejo , father of Laura ; not Lope . Also Belardo , molinero . El rey sin reino ( 1597–1612 ) ; child villano , son of Belardo ; not Lope . San Segundo de Avila , 1594 ; Act III , criado ; not Lope . Santiago el verde , 1615 ...

Representation of Woman in Early French Surrealist Drama

... surrealist theater which deal only in passing with the feminine characterization . By focussing on the female characters in important surrealist plays , I hope to cast new light on this significant subject , which has heretofore been ...

Les Liaisons Dangereuses: A Play

In 18th century France, the bored aristocrat Marquise de Merteuil challenges the rakish Vicomte de Valmont to seduce a virtuous young married woman, with unfortunate results.

The physiology of marriage, Petty troubles of married life, Repertory

... clarinet , con- stituted the orchestra . Plissoud , Bonnébault , Viallet , and Amaury Lupin were steady patrons of his establishment , which was long famous for its billiards , its punch , and its mulled wine . In 1823 , Socquard lost ...

Rhinoceros: The Chairs, the Lesson

A collection of three plays including "Rhinoceros", "The Chairs", and "The Lesson."

The French Stage in the Eighteenth Century

... three - act tragedy in verse , by Arnault , Théâtre de la République ( Palais Royal ) , 1795 . Opening of a theatre in the Rue Feydeau . Galathée , one - act melodrama , by Poulher , Feb. Pausanias , tragedy , by Trouvé , Rue Feydeau ...

Honoré de Balzac in Twenty-five Volumes: The First Complete Translation Into English

... Balzac as pre- ferring moral ugliness to moral beauty , which has been so often referred to - that he has rather a habit of setting his studies in rose - pink side by side with his far more vigor- ous exercitations in black and crimson ...

An Introduction to the French Classical Drama

... monologues in the play of Andromaque . Hermione's monologue at the beginning of the fifth act represents all the possible transitions between love and hatred . 2 Ah ! ne puis - je savoir si j'aime ou si je hais ? 2 And then goes on to ...

Jean Racine: Meditations on His Poetic Art

... Hermione ? ( Hermione's monologue , v . 1 ) In the following passage from Phèdre , the repetition of the adjective ' jaloux ' ( in the phrase ' moi , jalouse ' ) offers perhaps the finest example to be found in Racine of the devastating ...

La Señorita del almacén: comedia en tres actos y en prosa

... es esto ? Nada ; una letra que venció ... Como las ven- tas escasean , no tenía fondos ... y he conse- guido que me la prorroguen por tres meses ... ( Preocupado . ) Ya se pagará , Dios mediante ... Nada ... Anda , hijo , anda ... Puede ...

Aristotelian and Pseudo-Aristotelian Elements in Corneille's Tragedies

... traits of character . The crit- erion for the poet in choosing or fashioning his characters is that they must to such as to atouse pity and fear , since this is the particular function of Tragedy . For just as the subject , so also the ...

French Drama of the Inter-war Years, 1918-1939

... drama on these lines . He also defines the place of style . A play is a ... type , who was , more often than not , content with one or more " charac ... drama which Girau- doux had taken from his novel and then discarded . ( His publica ...

Four Contemporary French Plays

... ANTIGONE How long have you been in the Guard ? GUARD Since the war . I was in the army . Sergeant . Then I joined the Guard . ANTIGONE ... audible ) I see . GUARD That's why sergeants , now , they don't like guards . Maybe you noticed they ...

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