Alfred De Musset

Alfred de Musset: Seven Plays (eBook, ePUB)

Marianne; Fantasio; Don't Trifle with Love; The Candlestick; A Diversion; A Door Must Be Kept Open or Shut; You Can't Think of Everything
Übersetzer: Meyer, Peter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Marianne, Fantasio, Don't Trifle With Love, The Candlestick, A Diversion, A Door Must be Open or Shut, You Can't Think of Everything

The seven plays in this collection share a light-hearted tone, though with occasional and unexpected moments of seriousness.

In Marianne, a confirmed cynic intercedes with a married woman on behalf of his best friend. In the eponymous hero of the modern 'fairy tale' Fantasio, by turns imaginative, abrupt and perceptive, Musset provides us with a compelling self-portrait. Don't Trifle with Love shows the dangerous strategems of two childhood sweethearts, supposedly destined for marriage. In The Candlestick, an infatuated clerk is set up as a decoy by his employer's young wife and her lover. The one-act plays A Diversion, A Door Must be Open or Shut and You Can't Think of Everything deal, in witty, epigrammatic style, with various aspects of romance: a wife and her friend test her husband's fidelity, or lack of it; a man wants to propose to his bantering, blasé hostess; and a couple in love, one absent-minded, the other forgetful, tries to concentrate long enough to get married.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783192830
• Artikelnr.: 45534933

Autorenporträt

An infant prodigy of French romanticism and much inspired by Shakespeare and Schiller, Alfred de Musset (b. 1810) wrote the first modern dramas in the French language. His best-known plays include Les Caprices de Marianne (1833), Lorenzaccio (1833 - often referred to as the French Hamlet), and Un Caprice. His plays are some of the best of French theatre in the nineteenth century, though he was also an esteemed poet and novelist. He received the Légion d'honneur on 24 April 1845, at the same time as Balzac, and was elected to the Académie française in 1852. He died in 1857.

Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was born on 11 December 1810 in Paris. He was dramatist, poet, and novelist and after his graduation in medicine he became one of the first Romantic writers. Main works including: poems, Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie (1829), Un Spectacle dans un fauteuil (1832), Poésies completes (1840), Poésies nouvelles (1850); novels such as La Confession d'un enfant du siècle (The Confession of a Child of the Century, 1836), Histoire d'un merle blanc (The White Blackbird, 1842) and plays : La Nuit vénitienne (1830), André del Sarto (1833), Lorenzaccio (1834), On ne badine pas avec l'amour (1834), Un Caprice (1837), Carmosine (1850), Bettine (1851). Musset also received the Légion d'honneur on 24 April 1845, at the same time as Balzac, and was elected to the Académie française in 1852. He died in 1857.