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A Company Of Actors The Comedie Francaise
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Book Synopsis A Company of Actors (The Comédie Française) by : Francisque Sarcey
Download or read book A Company of Actors (The Comédie Française) written by Francisque Sarcey and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of four papers on acting in the series by the Dramatic Museum. Includes a lecture given about the author, an important French dramatic critic of the time, regarding his involvement with the company of the Comedie-Francaise in Paris.
Book Synopsis A Company of Actors, the Comédie Française ... (Translated by M. Barbier.) With an Introduction by Brander Matthews by : Francisque SARCEY
Download or read book A Company of Actors, the Comédie Française ... (Translated by M. Barbier.) With an Introduction by Brander Matthews written by Francisque SARCEY and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Comédie-Française from Molière to Éric Ruf by : Simon Trowbridge
Download or read book The Comédie-Française from Molière to Éric Ruf written by Simon Trowbridge and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new book, the first of its kind in English, Simon Trowbridge traces the rich and sometimes turbulent history of France's national theatre company, the Comédie-Française, from its foundation in 1680 to the present day. The Comédie-Française has survived the vanity of kings and emperors. It has survived revolutions and wars. During all of its long history it has remained a true company, a society of actors. There have been good times and inevitable dips, but today this most legendary of theatres is also among Europe's most dynamic and most compelling. High quality production photographs, along with other images, illustrate the text and help to convey the style and quality of the Comédie's recent work. Also available in hardback.
Book Synopsis Behind the Scenes of the Comédie Française by : Arsène Houssaye
Download or read book Behind the Scenes of the Comédie Française written by Arsène Houssaye and published by London : Chapman and Hall, Limited. This book was released on 1889 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Behind the Scenes of the Comédie Française and Other Recollections by : Arsène Houssaye
Download or read book Behind the Scenes of the Comédie Française and Other Recollections written by Arsène Houssaye and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Gayety French Plays, Season 1880 by : M. L. Mayer
Download or read book The Gayety French Plays, Season 1880 written by M. L. Mayer and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Scribner's Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People by :
Download or read book Scribner's Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Comédie Française by : J. Keith Angus
Download or read book The Comédie Française written by J. Keith Angus and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine ... by :
Download or read book Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Tragic Muse by : Rachel M. Brownstein
Download or read book Tragic Muse written by Rachel M. Brownstein and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great nineteenth-century tragedienne known simply as Rachel was the first dramatic actress to achieve international fame. Composing her own persona with the same brilliance and passion she demonstrated on stage, she virtually invented the role of "star." Rumors of her extravagant life offstage delighted the audiences who flocked to theaters in Boston and Paris, London and Moscow, to see her perform in the tragedies of Racine and Corneille. In Tragic Muse, Rachel M. Brownstein reveals the life of la grande Rachel and explores--at the boundary of biography, fiction, and cultural history--the connections between this self-dramatizing woman and her image. Born to itinerant Jewish peddlers in 1821, Rachel arrived on the Paris stage at the age of fifteen. She became both a symbol of her culture's highest art and a clue to its values and obsessions. Fascinated with all things Napoleonic, she was the mother of Napoleon's grandson and the lover of many men connected to the emperor. Her story--the rise from humble beginnings to queen of the French state theater--echoes and parodies Napoleon's own. She decisively controlled her career, her time, and finances despite the actions and claims of managers, suitors, and lovers. A woman of exceptional charisma, Rachel embodied contradiction and paradox. She captured the attention of her time and was memorialized in the works of Matthew Arnold, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Henry James. Richly illustrated with portraits, photographs, and caricatures, Tragic Muse combines brilliant literary analysis and exceptional historical research. With great skill and acuity, Rachel M. Brownstein presents Rachel--her brief intense life and the image that was both self-fashioned and, outliving her, fashioned by others. First published by Knopf (1993), this book will attract a broad audience interested in matters as wide ranging as the construction of character, the cult of celebrity, women's lives, and Jewish history. It will also be of enduring interest to readers concerned with nineteenth-century French culture, history, literature, theater, and Romanticism. Tragic Muse won the 1993 George Freedley Award presented by the Theater Library Association.
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Book Synopsis Hearings by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 1972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Queens of the French Stage by : Hugh Noel Williams
Download or read book Queens of the French Stage written by Hugh Noel Williams and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FEW women in French history have been the subject of more discussion than the young girl whom Molière married, at the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois, on February 20, 1662. Armande Grésinde Claire Elisabeth Béjart, for that was the bride's name, is described in the marriage deed as the daughter of the late Joseph Béjart, écuyer, sieur de Belleville, and of his widow, Marie Hervé. Joseph Béjart, it should be stated, had died shortly before, or shortly after, Armande's birth. The Béjarts were very poor, for the only means which Joseph seems to have possessed wherewith to maintain his pretensions to nobility were derived from a small government appointment (huissier ordinaire du roy ès eaux et forêts de France), and his wife had presented him with "at least eleven children." They lived in the Marais, then the theatrical quarter of Paris. On its northern outskirts, near the Halles, in the Rue Mauconseil, stood the old Hôtel de Bourgogne, the first home of the regular drama; in the centre, in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple, was the theatre which took its name from the quarter, the Théâtre du Marais, where Corneille's Cid was first performed; while nearer the Seine, the playgoer could make choice between the Italian troupes, the Trois Farceurs, Gaultier-Garguille, Gros-Guillaume, and Turlupin, and open-air entertainments on the Pont-au-Change, the Pont-Neuf, and the Place Dauphine. It is, therefore, not surprising that the little Béjarts should have been in the habit of varying the monotony of their poverty-stricken lives by occasional visits to one or other of these spectacles, or that, dazzled by those well-known attractions, which were doubtless as potent in the seventeenth century as they are to-day, the two eldest, Joseph and Madeleine, should have decided, while still very young, to make the stage their profession. What theatre witnessed their débuts we do not know. The majority of authors are of opinion that they joined a company of strolling players which was at this time exploiting Languedoc; M. Larroumet hesitates between one of the unlicensed playhouses of the fairs in the neighbourhood of Paris and a troupe of amateurs, several of which were to be found in the capital; while another of Madeleine's biographers, M. Henri Chardon, thinks that she obtained admission to the Théâtre du Marais, though it appears very improbable that a young and inexperienced actress could have met with such good fortune. However that may be, Madeleine seems to have prospered in her profession from the very outset, as on January 10, 1636, supported by her curateur, one Simon Courtin, her father, a paternal uncle, a "chef du gobelet du roi," and divers other relatives and friends, she appears before the Civil Lieutenant of Paris to request permission to contract a loan of 2000 livres, wherewith to supplement a like sum of her own and enable her to acquire a little house and garden situated in the Cul-de-Sac Thorigny.
Author :Frederick William John Hemmings Publisher :Cambridge University Press ISBN 13 :0521450888 Total Pages :303 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (214 download)
Book Synopsis Theatre and State in France, 1760-1905 by : Frederick William John Hemmings
Download or read book Theatre and State in France, 1760-1905 written by Frederick William John Hemmings and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-02-25 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relations between theatre and state were seldom more fraught in France than in this period. F. W. J. Hemmings traces the vicissitudes of this perennial conflict.
Book Synopsis Henry James: The Mature Master by : Sheldon M. Novick
Download or read book Henry James: The Mature Master written by Sheldon M. Novick and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times compared Sheldon M. Novick’s Henry James: The Young Master to “a movie of James’s life, as it unfolds, moment to moment, lending the book a powerful immediacy.” Now, in Henry James: The Mature Master, Novick completes his super, revelatory two-volume account of one of the world’s most gifted and least understood authors, and of a vanished world of aristocrats and commoners. Using hundreds of letters only recently made available and taking a fresh look at primary materials, Novick reveals a man utterly unlike the passive, repressed, and privileged observer painted by other biographers. Henry James is seen anew, as a passionate and engaged man of his times, driven to achieve greatness and fame, drawn to the company of other men, able to write with sensitivity about women as he shared their experiences of love and family responsibility. James, age thirty-eight as the volume begins, basking in the success of his first major novel, The Portrait of a Lady, is a literary lion in danger of being submerged by celebrity. As his finances ebb and flow he turns to the more lucrative world of the stage–with far more success than he has generally been credited with. Ironically, while struggling to excel in the theatre, James writes such prose masterpieces as The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl. Through an astonishingly prolific life, James still finds time for profound friendships and intense rivalries. Henry James: The Mature Master features vivid new portraits of James’s famous peers, including Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, and Robert Louis Stevenson; his close and loving siblings Alice and William; and the many compelling young men, among them Hugh Walpole and Howard Sturgis, with whom James exchanges professions of love and among whom he thrives. We see a master converting the materials of an active life into great art. Here, too, as one century ends and another begins, is James’s participation in the public events of his native America and adopted England. As the still-feudal European world is shaken by democracy and as America sees itself endangered by a wave of Jewish and Italian immigrants, a troubled James wrestles with his own racial prejudices and his desire for justice. With the coming of world war all other considerations are set aside, and James enlists in the cause of civilization, leaving his greatest final works unwritten. Hailed as a genius and a warm and charitable man–and derided by enemies as false, effeminate, and self-infatuated–Henry James emerges here as a major and complex figure, a determined and ambitious artist who was planning a new novel even on his deathbed. In Henry James: The Mature Master, he is at last seen in full; along with its predecessor volume, this book is bound to become the definitive biography. NOTE: This edition does not include a photo insert.
Book Synopsis A New History of French Literature by : Denis Hollier
Download or read book A New History of French Literature written by Denis Hollier and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-19 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for the general reader, this splendid introduction to French literature from 842 A.D.—the date of the earliest surviving document in any Romance language—to the present decade is the most compact and imaginative single-volume guide available in English to the French literary tradition. In fact, no comparable work exists in either language. It is not the customary inventory of authors and titles but rather a collection of wide-angled views of historical and cultural phenomena. It sets before us writers, public figures, criminals, saints, and monarchs, as well as religious, cultural, and social revolutions. It gives us books, paintings, public monuments, even TV shows. Written by 164 American and European specialists, the essays are introduced by date and arranged in chronological order, but here ends the book’s resemblance to the usual history of literature. Each date is followed by a headline evoking an event that indicates the chronological point of departure. Usually the event is literary—the publication of an original work, a journal, a translation, the first performance of a play, the death of an author—but some events are literary only in terms of their repercussions and resonances. Essays devoted to a genre exist alongside essays devoted to one book, institutions are presented side by side with literary movements, and large surveys appear next to detailed discussions of specific landmarks. No article is limited to the “life and works” of a single author. Proust, for example, appears through various lenses: fleetingly, in 1701, apropos of Antoine Galland’s translation of The Thousand and One Nights; in 1898, in connection with the Dreyfus Affair; in 1905, on the occasion of the law on the separation of church and state; in 1911, in relation to Gide and their different treatments of homosexuality; and at his death in 1922. Without attempting to cover every author, work, and cultural development since the Serments de Strasbourg in 842, this history succeeds in being both informative and critical about the more than 1,000 years it describes. The contributors offer us a chance to appreciate not only French culture but also the major critical positions in literary studies today. A New History of French Literature will be essential reading for all engaged in the study of French culture and for all who are interested in it. It is an authoritative, lively, and readable volume.
