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Author : Brander Matthews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Dramatists, French
ISBN : UCAL:B3746692
Author : Brander Matthews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Dramatists, French
ISBN : NYPL:33433075807226
Author : Brander Matthews
Publisher : New York : B. Blom
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Dramatists, French
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038043613
Author : Brander Matthews
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1330416139
Excerpt from French Dramatists of the 19th Century It is not yet sixty years since the Romanticists and the Classicists first met in battle-array; and it is but little more than fifty years since Hernani sounded his trumpet, and the hollow walls of Classicism fell with a final crash. This half-century is a period of no slight importance in the history of the drama: it is one of the two epochs when the plays of France have been conspicuously and incomparably superior to the plays of any other country; the earlier epoch was when the French stage saw in rapid succession the newest works of Corneille, of Molière, and of Racine. Although, with our ownership of Shakspere constantly in mind, we may not be willing to allow that the French have reached the highest pinnacle of the drama, we can see clearly enough that it is in the drama that they have mounted highest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : James Brander Matthews
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 135486994X
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Author : Brander 1852-1929 Matthews
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014889553
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Brander Matthews
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230202110
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...the first-fruits of this new philosophy, the preacher fortunately has not yet overmastered the playwright. The piece is a marvel of polemic literature, a model in the art of teaching by example. Mr. John Morley instances it as one of the very few modern plays which Diderot would recognize as belonging to the genre strieux, which began with his own ' Pere de Famille.' It treats an important subject honestly and with intellectual seriousness: there is none of the petty begging of the question which disfigures two other works on the same subject, --the 'Fernande' of M. Victorien Sardou, and the ' New Magdalen' of Mr. Wilkie Collins; both clever men, lacking, however, in the courage and the candor needed to face the problem fairly. There is a fourth work of fiction, published not long after M. Dumas's, which approaches the subject with the same appreciation of its demands and its difficulties. This is a novel, ' Hedged In, ' by Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, as representatively New England as the ' Idees de Madame Aubray' is French. It is of course a mere paradox to say that M. Dumas, since his regeneration, appears to me as a typical New-Englander; but he has something of the New-England spirit, and he stands at times in the New-England attitude. He recalls, in a way, both Nathaniel Hawthorne and Oliver Wendell Holmes. His theology is in essence Unitarian. I have before made mention of his very New-England knack of biblical quotation; and, as his recent volume on divorce shows, he is as prone to search the Scriptures for a text wherewith to smite his adversary, as any of those chips of Plymouth Rock who "take to the ministry mostly." Without pushing the analogy too far, we can see it stand out plainly when we set the ' Idees de Madame Aubray'...
Author : Frederick William John Hemmings
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993-08-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521441421
This 1993 book explores the history of French theatre in the nineteenth century.
Author : Brander Matthews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Dramatists, French
ISBN : UIUC:30112069879705
Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : English drama
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521058317
Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.
Author : Henri Lavedon,Jules Lematre,Maurice Donnay,Barrett H. Clark,Charlotte Tenney David
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 149534309X
An excerpt from the beginning of the PREFACE: THE label "Made in France" may nearly always be accepted as a guarantee of good play-making; for, ever since the inception of the modern drama, the French have been the masters and the teachers of the craft. In these opening years of the twentieth century, fewer French plays have been presented in the theaters of America and England than were presented in the closing years of the nineteenth century; but this fact, instead of indicating a deterioration in the contemporary product, may be accepted, rather, as an indication that the French drama has made a definite advance along a certain line. The dominant spirit of the French drama in the last three generations has been realistic. As realism advances, the tendency is to narrow the segment of life that is submitted to observation and to deepen the observation of the segment that has been selected for analysis. As realism has progressed in France, the drama has become more French—more local in its themes and in its characters— and has sacrificed the breadth of cosmopolitan appeal to gain the depth of national importance. Three or four generations ago, the most popular dramatist in France was Eugene Scribe. It was this facile and prolific craftsman who gave to the modern theater the formula of the well-made play [la pièce bien faite], a formula that, with several modifications and amplifications, has subsisted to the present day. Since the excellence of Scribe was mainly structural, it was very easy to transplant his plays from one country to another. His dialogue was devoid of literary merit, and was therefore just as pertinent in a translation as in the original. His characters were merely puppets, and were therefore just as interesting to foreigners as they could ever be to Frenchmen. And, since there was no note of nationality in his dexterous and clever plots, these plots could easily be adapted to serve as the theatric fare of a public overseas. A simple play of plot is much more cosmopolitan in its appeal than a study of national characters or local situations. The broad and cosmopolitan appeal of Scribe was continued by his immediate disciple and successor, Victorien Sardou. A typical Sardou melodrama, like Fedora or La Tosca, was fully as enjoyable to foreign audiences as to the public of Paris. The logical successor of Sardou in the contemporary French theater is M. Henry Bernstein; and it is not surprising that his plays have been more successful in America than those of any other French playwright of the present time. No less than five of his works — The Whirlwind, The Thief, Samson, Israel, and The Secret — have been profitably acted in this country. M. Bernstein is a more important dramatist than Sardou or Scribe, for he has forced the formula of the well-made play to sustain an analysis of character that is unusually searching; but his merit is, in the main, a matter of mechanics, and his emphasis on mechanism may be accepted as accounting for the comparative ease with which his plays may be transported from one country to another. In France itself, while Scribe was still alive, his reputation was overridden by two dramatists of more profound intention,—Emile Augier and Alexandre Dumas, fils; but neither of these writers attained the cosmopolitan currency of their more mechanical and artificial rival. Augier—the greatest French dramatist of the nineteenth century—devoted himself to the study of social conditions which were peculiarly French; and it was impossible to make his plays seem applicable to the social conditions of any other country. Just as M. Bernstein has been singled out as the logical successor of Sardou and Scribe, M. Eugene Brieux may be selected as the logical successor of Augier in the contemporary theater....
Author : Joseph Leopold Borgerhoff
Publisher : Irvington Pub
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : French drama
ISBN : 0891973192
Author : J. Johnston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137452900
Filling a critical void, this book examines French women dramatists of the nineteenth-century who staged works prior to the lifting of censorship laws in 1864. Though none staged overtly feminist drama, Sophie de Bawr, Sophie Gay, Virginie Ancelot, and Delphine Girardin questioned patriarchal dominance and reconstructed ideals of womanhood.
Author : Diana R. Hallman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521038812
This is a comprehensive critical study of the nineteenth-century French grand opéra La Juive, by Halévy.