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Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux The French novelist and dramatist Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (1688-1763) created a complex and...the lesser nobility, Pierre Carlet de Marivaux spent his childhood in the provinces...
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Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de (1688...Le Legs (1736) were well received. Marivaux's delicate, psychological theatre...proved herself the perfect interpreter of Marivaux's heroines. Although French companies...
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Musset, (Louis-Charles) Alfred de
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...and Dumas père , suggesting rather the influence of Marivaux . They are either bitter-sweet comedies mingled with fantasy...plays remain little known in England, probably because, like Marivaux, he does not translate easily.
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Commedia Dell'arte
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...revival in 1716 by Luigi Riccoboni. The Italian companies influenced Moli è re (1622 – 1673) and eventually Marivaux (1688 – 1763), nurtured French versions of stock roles like Mezzetin, Scaramouche, or Scapin and Gallic additions...
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Mars, Mlle
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...She retired in 1841, making her last appearances on 31 Mar. as Elmire in Molière's Tartuffe and Silvia in Marivaux's Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard . A beautiful woman with a lovely voice, she continued to play young parts until she...
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Harlequin
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...arte , where he was one of the quick-witted, unscrupulous serving-men; and so he remained in Italy. But in France Marivaux turned him into a pretty simpleton, while in the English harlequinade he was first a romantic magician and later a languishing...
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Fresnay, Pierre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...trained at the Conservatoire, who made his stage début at the Comédie-Française in 1915 in Marivaux's Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard , playing Britannicus in Racine's play in the same year and making his first appearance...
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Gaskill, William
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...Rowley's A Fair Quarrel (1979), and Pirandello's Man , Beast and Virtue (1989). He also staged Congreve's The Way of the World (Chichester and London, 1984) and Marivaux's Infidelities (1987), in his own translation.
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Brighella
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...of the Neapolitan street-corner boy, he later became a lackey. Through the establishment of the Comédie-Italienne in Paris he influenced the development of the French valets of Marivaux , and so the Figaro of Beaumarchais .
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Mackenzie, Henry
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...Edinburgh and London. His first novel The Man of Feeling (1771) established him as a sentimental novelist in the tradition of Marivaux and Sterne . He was the moving spirit in a group of Edinburgh men of letters who published the Mirror (1779–80...
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