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Loading... Camille and Other Plays: A Peculiar Position; The Glass of Water; La Dame aux Camélias; Olympe's Marriage; A Scrap of Paperby Stephen S. Stanton
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This anthology contains five plays - A Peculiar Position and The Glass of Water, by Scribe, La Dame aux Camelias by Dumas, Olympe's Marriage by Augier, and A Scrap of Paper by Sardou. All are relatively melodramatic and formulaic "well-made plays", with short introductions to each. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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In this classic anthology of French drama, Stephen S. Stanton has assembled the nineteenth century's finest "well-made plays": The Glass of Water and A Peculiar Position by Eugene Scribe; Camille by Alexander Dumas fils; Olympe's Marriage by Emile Augier; A Scrap of Paper by Victorien Sardou. In an incisive introduction, Stanton fully diagrams these works and their seminal influence on modern theater. Whether Dumas's risqué study of courtesan love in Camille, or Augier's counterattack on thedangers of sentimentalizing such passions in Olympe's Marriage, these plays not only brilliantly evoke Second Empire and Third Republic French culture but also introduce domestic themes and theatrical devices that have influenced Western drama for the last one hundred and fifty years. No library descriptions found. |
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