| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 481 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 192 |
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Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 192
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| Contents |
Emile Augier / Judith Graves Miller & Denise R. Mjelde -- Henry Becque / Lynn R. Wilkinson -- Joseph Bouchardy / John McCormick -- Eugène Brieux / Marvin Carlson -- Marie-Joseph Chènier / Marvin Carlson -- Paul Claudel / Bettina L. Knapp -- Georges Courteline / Judith Graves Miller & Denise R. Mjelde -- Jean-François Casimir Delavigne / Binita Mehta -- Adophe Philippe Dennery / Mario Hamlet-Metz -- Victor Ducange / Marie-Pierre Le Hir -- Alexandre Dumas fils / John A. Degen -- Alexandre Dumas père / Barbara T. Cooper -- Octave Feuillet / Marcia G. Parker -- Georges Feydeau / Norman R. Shapiro -- Ludovic Halévy / Diana R. Hallman -- Victor Hugo / John J. Janc -- Alec Jarry / Rhona Justice-Malloy -- Eugène Labiche / Janice Best -- Louis-Jean-Népomucène Lemercier / Barbara T. Cooper -- Maurice Maeterlinck / Lynn R. Wilkinson -- Prosper Mérimée / Daniele Gerould -- Octave Mirbeau / Julia Przybos -- Alfred de Musset / David Sices -- René Charles Guilbert de Pixerécourt / Angela Pao -- François Ponsard / Marcia G. Parker -- Rachilde (marguerite Eymery Vallette) / Melanie C. Hawthorne & Frazer Lively -- Jean Richepin / Julia Przybos -- Edmond Rostand / Juliette M. Rogers -- George Sand / Gay Smith (Manifold) -- Vitorien Sardou / Mario Hamlet-Metz -- Eugene Scribe / Douglas Cardwell -- Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël-Holstein / John Claiborne Isbell -- Alfred de Vigny / Robert T. Denommé -- Jean-Marie Mathias Philippe-Auguste, Comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam / John Blaise Anzalone |
| Summary |
Essays on French dramatists writing during a period when Paris and the provinces saw thousands of dramatic works in a myriad of genres. These plays offered not only entertainment, but broached serious political and social issues as well, during a time of government censorship. Includes information on the various forms of theatrical entertainment, and the various types of playwriting, including melodrama, romantic drama, tragedies, comedies and realistic dramas |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-411) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Dramatists, French -- Biography -- Dictionaries
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French drama -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Dictionaries.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cooper, Barbara T., 1944-
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| LC no. |
98016251 |
| ISBN |
0787618470 |
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9780787618476 |
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