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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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Comédie-Italienne, La
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...found that the younger dramatists were ready to write for them. They appeared in, among others, many of the finest plays of Marivaux , no longer playing in the commedia dell'arte style but in a new and specialized manner in which foreign and native material...
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Renaud, Madeleine-Lucie
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...and soon became known as an outstanding interpreter of classical comedy, particularly in the plays of Molière and Marivaux . In 1940 she married as her second husband J.-L. Barrault , who had just joined the company, and appeared in several...
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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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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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sentiment, sensibility, novel of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...sympathy and feeling, were the marks of the man or woman of sentiment. The cult may be traced particularly to the work of Marivaux, Richardson , and S. Fielding ; the most popular and influential novels to which they gave rise were probably H. Brooke...
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Delaunay, Louis-Arsène
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...was so much admired as Coelio in the same author's Les Caprices de Marianne (1851) that after his retirement in 1886 it went out of the repertory for many years. He appeared in revivals of Marivaux and Regnard and in many new plays.
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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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