Nineteenth Century French Plays


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Includes plays by Rene-Charles Guilbert de Pixerecourt, Louis-Benoit Picard, Casimir Delavigne, Alexandre Dumas (pere), Victor Hugo, Alfred de Vigny, Alfred de Musset, Eugene Scribe, Honore de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas (fils), Emile Augier, Edouard Pailleron, Henri Becque, Francois de Curel, Eugene Brieux, Edmond Rostand (the latter represented by Cyrano de Bergerac).













Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature


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With more than 1800 critical entries on the writers and literatures of 33 languages, this work presents the entire range of modern European writing -- from the symbolist and modernist works rooted in the last decades of the nineteenth century; through the avant-garde and existentialist movement to Barthes, Blanchot, Breton, and continental thought pertinent today.




Modern Languages


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