Download or read book The Contemporary Drama of France written by Frank Wadleigh Chandler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Contemporary Drama of France This volume offers a survey and an interpretation of the French drama for three decades, from the opening of the Theatre-Libre of Antoine to the conclusion of the World War. It attempts the classification, analysis, and criticism of a thousand plays by two hundred and thirty authors. Among these are included a few Belgians whose pieces, written in French, have been as familiar to Paris as to Brussels. Although the productions of the period be less striking than those of the Romantic era, and less likely than those of the Classic to endure, they are more numerous and more vitally interesting to the generation whose failures, foibles, and aspirations they depict. Thus far, only one book in English has been exclusively devoted to this subject - the succinct and suggestive Contemporary French Dramatists (1915) of Barrett H. Clark, which considers a dozen major playwrights, yet essays no history of current French drama as a whole. 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.
Download or read book The Contemporary Drama of France written by Frank Wadleigh Chandler and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book An Outline of Contemporary Drama written by Thomas H. Dickinson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book CONTEMPORARY DRAMA OF FRANCE written by FRANK WADLEIGH. CHANDLER and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Four Contemporary French Plays written by Ruby Cohn and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contemporary French Theatre and Performance written by C. Finburgh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to explore the relationship between experimental theatre and performance making in France. Reflecting the recent return to aesthetics and politics in French theory, it focuses on how a variety of theatre and performance practitioners use their art work to contest reality as it is currently configured in France.
Download or read book The Modern French Drama Classic Reprint written by Augustin Filon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Modern French Drama That modern England possessed a stage, supported by dramatic writers of ability, independence, and originality. When the papers on the English Stage first appeared in book form, I asked M. Filon to do something of the same kind of service for English readers as he had already done for his kinsmen across the Channel, and illustrate in the pages of the Fortnightly Review some of the main principles and tendencies underlying the contemporary drama in Paris. The conditions in the two cases. 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.
Download or read book The contemporary French drama the only authorised tr ed by V Richon written by French drama and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading Theatre written by Anne Ubersfeld and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ubersfeld show how formal analysis can enrich the work of theatre practioners and offers a reading of the symbolic structures of stage space and time as well as opening up mulitple possibilities for interpreting a play's line of action.
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Download or read book The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary French Plays written by Remi De Vos and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diverse selection of contemporary plays from a range of established and up-and-coming playwrights based in France, edited and translated by Chris Campbell, literary manager of the Royal Court, and a foreword by Dr Clare Finburgh of the University of Kent. The volume includes: Rémi De Vos – Till Death Adeline Picault - Bobine And Mikado Magali Mougel - Erwin Motor, Devotion Lancelot Hamelin - Alta Villa
Download or read book Three Modern Plays from the French written by Henri Lavedon and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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....
Download or read book Theater of the French Caribbean written by Stephanie Berard and published by Caribbean Studies Press. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
