La Princesse Maleine

by Maurice Maeterlinck

La princesse Maleine doit épouser le prince Hjalmar, fils du roi Hjalmir. Mais quand ses parents et le Roi Hjalmir ont un malentendu, elle est enfermée dans une tour. Elle s'enfuit avec sa nourrice et, cachant son identité, devient une serviteuse dans la maison de Hjalmar. Là elle apprend que le prince est maintenant fiancé à Uglyane, fille de la cruelle reine Anne. Alors la reine Anne découvre la vrai identité de Maleine...

Genres: Plays, Theatre

328 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 1889

About the author

Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (also called Count Maeterlinck from 1932) was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was a Fleming, but wrote in French.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations".

The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. His plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement.

Reviews

[Hélène Lamboley · Rating 4 out of 5]

J’ai bien aimé l’ambiance de mystère et la richesse symbolique de la pièce mais j’avoue qu’à la lecture les innombrables répétitions qui doivent produire un écho signifiant à la représentation sont un peu fastidieuses

[Umutoni Rehema]

It Had to Be You

[Laura]

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