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Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux , 1688-1763, French dramatist and novelist. He enjoyed popularity for a time with his numerous comedies, including Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard (1730, tr. Love in Livery ) and Le Legs (1736, tr. The Legacy, 1915), which analyze the sentiments and compl... Read more
French literature
French literature writings in medieval French dialects and standard modern French. Writings in Provençal and Breton are considered separately, as are works in French produced abroad (as at Canadian literature, French ). Medieval Literature Until the 12th cent. AD most forms of wri... Read more
Western drama
Western drama plays produced in the Western world. This article discusses the development of Western drama in general; for further information see the various national literature articles. Greek Drama The Western dramatic tradition has its origins in ancient Greece. The precise evolution ... Read more

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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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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 .
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...
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...
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.
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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Erotikon
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Erotikon ; the humor is gentle and pleasant, defensive rather than attacking . . . . we are far from Beaumarchais or even Marivaux." Stiller never made another film like Erotikon, which is curious, for it represented his own outlook on life. His next...
Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bouyer (or Bovier) De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...from 1710 to 1733, by Mme. de Lambert, at whose home he met men of letters and scholars, such as Houdar de La Motte, Marivaux, Montesquieu, and Mairan. He also attended the duchesse du Maine at her court at Sceaux and was a frequent guest of Mme...
Astruc, Jean
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...daughter to Daubin de Silhouette and also remembered him in her will. For some time Astruc, Bernard de Fontenelle, Pierre Marivaux, Jean de Mairan, the Marquis Victor de Mirabeau, Claude de Boze, and Charles Duclos were considered the seven sages of...

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This much isn't disputed - Marivaux play a romp
Newspaper article from: The Gazette; 2/21/2003; ; 680 words ; ...18 th Century French playwright Pierre Marivaux begins with an experiment. Years earlier...is like, unspoiled by civilization. Marivaux's script is slender, leaving much...clearly as the characters' manners. While Marivaux makes fun of his era's rationalism...
REDISCOVERED MARIVAUX, C'EST MERVEILLEUX.(L.A. LIFE)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 7/23/1996; 700+ words ; ...the unwieldy name of Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux. Marivaux (1688-1763) was merely an obscure 18th-century...kind of thing. To tell you the truth, I thought (Marivaux) would be the flavor of the month.'' To Wadsworth...
Marivaux, Playing the Mating 'Game'; Import Production Savors Substance Beneath Playwright's Considerable Style
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/27/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...against Pierre Carlet de Chamberlain de Marivaux (1688- 1763) is distilled in the French...legacy for themselves- -to see through Marivaux's most celebrated and complex work...55, is among those who want to rescue Marivaux from marivaudage--by tackling what...
Are you ready for Marivaux?
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 9/20/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...Keenly, we scribbled a few notes on Marivaux and the Comedie Francaise between the...shallow world of society in plays by Marivaux. The Crillon is a member of something...sponsors the season's gala opening of Marivaux's Les Fausses Confidences at the National...
Marivaux revived in Elgin
Newspaper article from: Courier-News (Elgin, IL); 8/21/2003; 579 words ; ...seniors Information: (847) 931-7247 Marivaux revived in Elgin The Janus Theatre will...against passion and emotion. Pierre Marivaux brilliantly puts his lovers through their...repartee. The style of dialogue with which Marivaux graced his comedies was even assigned...
MARIVAUX'S COOL `CHANGES' MEANDERS A BIT THE SLAPSTICK HIJINKS COULD USE SOME POLISH.(Entertainment)(Review)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 7/16/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...refreshing: a long, cool draught of Marivaux on a hot summer night. Like microbrewed boutique beer, Marivaux's satirical 1723 farce ``Changes...intoxicating. Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (1688-1763) never tired of two themes...
MARIVAUX COMEDY TO BE PRESENTED AT SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY AT EDWARDSVILLE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 2/13/2006; 700+ words ; ...he admits this upcoming production of Marivaux's The Dispute is a stretch even for...style, Harper said. He explained Marivaux's work went largely unnoticed in the...France until about two decades ago. "Marivaux's work is as important in France as...
Marivaux in the 'Hood: an interview with Abdellatif Kechiche.(Interview)
Magazine article from: Cineaste; 12/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...classic play, Pierre Carlet de Charablain Marivaux's Games of Love and Chance. The leading...while assuming the guise of Harlequin in Marivaux's comedy of manners. Perhaps the most...revelation of Kechiche's film is that Marivaux's eighteenth-century cadences are...
Triumph as French comedy is in vogue; The Almeida Theatre's production of The Triumph of Love continues British theatre's discovery of 18th century French playwright Marivaux. Terry Grimley reports.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 8/24/1999; 700+ words ; ...comedies of Moliere and Feydeau. If Marivaux gets a mention, it will probably be...at the Royal Court, first encountered Marivaux as a theatre student in France. Having...Zucco, for the RSC last year, he chose Marivaux's The Triumph of Love when invited...
THE RULES OF 'THE GAME' FRENCH PLAYWRIGHT MARIVAUX'S "THE GAME OF LOVE AND CHANCE" EXAMINES THE RITUALS AND REALITIES OF FALLING IN LOVE.(DAYBREAK)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI); 4/10/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...nature of love? The French playwright Marivaux, who wrote "The Game of Love and Chance...of the play, opening Friday. "He (Marivaux) was extraordinarily prescient in that...Although there will be live music by Marivaux contemporary Marin Marais on stage...