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Three French Farces
EUGÈNE LABICHE AND EDMOND GONDINET THE HAPPIEST OF THE THREE
VICTORIEN SARDOU AND ÉMILE DE NAJAC LET'S GET A DIVORCE!
GEORGES FEYDEAU GET OUT OF MY HAIR!
In Paris during the last decades of the nineteenth century the form of drama we know as farce reached its height, both in technical perfection and in the devastatingly accurate portrayal of character and manners. The reaction against the 'well-made play" and the critical solemnities accompanying the move towards naturalism in the theatre have tended to deny this form of play the appreciation that, at its best, it deserves - for the machine-like perfection of its plotting, for the mordancy of its portrayal of bourgeois life, and, above all, for the delicious humour of situation, dialogue and characterization. The playwrights represented in this volume demonstrate the genre at its best and their masterpieces have been compared, not undeservedly, with those of Molière. Three of their finest plays are presented here in readable and actable English.
VICTORIEN SARDOU AND ÉMILE DE NAJAC LET'S GET A DIVORCE!
GEORGES FEYDEAU GET OUT OF MY HAIR!
In Paris during the last decades of the nineteenth century the form of drama we know as farce reached its height, both in technical perfection and in the devastatingly accurate portrayal of character and manners. The reaction against the 'well-made play" and the critical solemnities accompanying the move towards naturalism in the theatre have tended to deny this form of play the appreciation that, at its best, it deserves - for the machine-like perfection of its plotting, for the mordancy of its portrayal of bourgeois life, and, above all, for the delicious humour of situation, dialogue and characterization. The playwrights represented in this volume demonstrate the genre at its best and their masterpieces have been compared, not undeservedly, with those of Molière. Three of their finest plays are presented here in readable and actable English.
288 pages, Paperback
First published April 30, 1974
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Eugène Labiche
309 books4 followersEugène Marin Labiche was a French dramatist, member of the Académie française.
Eugène Marin Labiche est un dramaturge français, membre de l'Académie française.
Eugène Marin Labiche est un dramaturge français, membre de l'Académie française.
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October 18, 2023
nothing pierces the stereotype of french sophistication quite like remembering what they find funny. a few light laffs here but it's mostly groanworthy. imagine devoting your life to writing dozens of these
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