Eugène Labiche

Broschiertes Buch

An Italian Straw Hat

Beschreibung

One of Labiche's most successful farces, "An Italian Straw Hat" presents viciously accurate observations of the bourgeoisie as the protaganist, pursued by an entire wedding party, quickly moves from mishap to mishap.

Autor

Eugène Marin Labiche (5 May 1815 - 23 January 1888) was a French dramatist.

He was considered a successful but undistinguished vaudevillist until the success of his five-act farce, Un Chapeau de paille d'Italie (The Italian Straw Hat) in August 1851. For the next twenty-five years, he continued to write successful comedies and vaudevilles. "Of all the subjects," he said, "which offered themselves to me, I have selected the bourgeois. Essentially mediocre in his vices and in his virtues, he stands half-way between the hero and the scoundrel, between the saint and the profligate."

Labiche died in Paris and was buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Theatre Communications Group
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 162mm x 108mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 95g
• ISBN-13: 9781854593009
• ISBN-10: 1854593005
• Artikelnr.: 23299513