Théatre Complet de Al. Dumas Fils
Author : Alexandre Dumas
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Page : 402 pages
File Size : 24,93 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Alexandre Dumas
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Page : 402 pages
File Size : 24,93 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Alexandre Dumas
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Page : 442 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Alexandre Dumas
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Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 1857
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Author : Alexandre Dumas
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Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Upper class
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Author : Robert Hoe
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Page : 326 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Private libraries
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Author : Stephan Wolohojian
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,53 MB
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 1588397637
Friends, rivals, and at times antagonists, Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas maintained a pictorial dialogue throughout their lives as they both worked to define the painting of modern urban life. Manet/Degas, the first book to consider their careers in parallel, investigates how their objectives overlapped, diverged, and shaped each other’s artistic choices. Enlivened by archival correspondence and records of firsthand accounts, essays by American and French scholars take a fresh look at the artists’ family relationships, literary friendships, and interconnected social and intellectual circles in Paris; explore their complex depictions of race and class; discuss their political views in the context of wars in France and the United States; compare their artistic practices; and examine how Degas built his personal collection of works by Manet after his friend’s premature death. An illustrated biographical chronology charts their intersecting lives and careers. This lavishly illustrated, in-depth study offers an opportunity to reevaluate some of the most canonical French artworks of the nineteenth century, including Manet’s Olympia, Degas’s The Absinthe Drinker, and other masterworks.
Author : Marvin A. Carlson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1501726889
Beginning with Aristotle and the Greeks and ending with semiotics and post-structuralism, Theories of the Theatre is the first comprehensive survey of Western dramatic theory. In this expanded edition the author has updated the book and added a new concluding chapter that focuses on theoretical developments since 1980, emphasizing the impact of feminist theory.
Author : Roberta Barker
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 23,70 MB
Release : 2023-01-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1609388623
Symptoms of the Self offers the first full study of the stage consumptive. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in France, Britain, and North America, tuberculosis was a leading killer. Its famous dramatic and operatic victims—Marguerite Gautier in La Dame aux Camélias and her avatar Violetta in La Traviata, Mimì in La Bohème, Little Eva in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and Edmund Tyrone in Long Day’s Journey into Night, to name but a few—are among the most iconic figures of the Western stage. Its classic symptoms, the cough and the blood-stained handkerchief, have become global performance shorthand for life-threatening illness. The consumptive character became a vehicle through which standards of health, beauty, and virtue were imposed; constructions of class, gender, and sexuality were debated; the boundaries of nationhood were transgressed or maintained; and an exceedingly fragile whiteness was held up as a dominant social ideal. By telling the story of tuberculosis on the transatlantic stage, Symptoms of the Self uncovers some of the wellsprings of modern Western theatrical practice—and of ideas about the self that still affect the way human beings live and die.
Author : F. W. J. Hemmings
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1448204836
The last of Alexandre Dumas's many mistresses, the American actress Adah Menken, called him "the king of romance." She was not thinking only of his immensely popular novels The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo - everything about Dumas was touched with the spirit of romance, and it is that spirit which this exhilarating biography captures. There was romance in Dumas's origins. He grew up in the country, the son of a general who fought under Napoleon in Egypt and Italy and whose own parents were a French marquis and a slave from Haiti. As a boy, Dumas's closest friends were local poachers and a gardener whom he once watched cut open a grass snake to liberate a frog. The world was full of magical possibilities, and, in his twenties, after moving to Paris and working as a clerk under the Duc d'Orleans, Dumas established himself, with Victor Hugo, as one of the leading Romantic playwrights. In its scope and richness, Dumas's life bears comparison to those of his fictional heroes. Drawing on Dumas's memoirs and surviving correspondence, Professor Hemmings constructs a fascinating story, first published in 1979, of a writer whose novels continue to excite our imagination.
Author : Harvard University. Library
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Page : 804 pages
File Size : 35,53 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Reference
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