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Charlotte Vanhove
Charlotte Vanhove (10 September 1771 – 11 April 1860) was a French stage actress and playwright. She was active at the Comedie-Francaise from 1786. She is also known as a writer, and was the author of several plays and books. Life Charlotte Vanhove was born in 1771 in The Hague, Dutch Republic. She was the daughter of actor Charles-Joseph Vanhove and actress Adnree Coche. Early career Being the daughter of two stage actors, Charlotte was destined for the theater. At the age of fourteen, she began studying and working at the Comedie-Francaise in 1785. In that same year, she took her title role in the play ''Iphigenia'' by Jean Racine. A few years later, Charlotte married a violinist, but shortly after the wedding, Charlotte asked for and was granted a divorce. During the Terror of Robespierre, Comedie-Francaise came in conflict with the government. On the night of 2 September 1793, Charlotte was arrested along with twelve other actors of the French Theater, all of which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Vanhove 1820s
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Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (, ; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, , ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and world literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed at the Comédie-Française more often than those of any other playwright today. His influence is such that the French language is often referred to as the "language of Molière". Born into a prosperous family and having studied at the Collège de Clermont (now Lycée Louis-le-Grand), Molière was well suited to begin a life in the theatre. Thirteen years as an itinerant actor helped him polish his comedic abilities while he began writing, combining Commedia dell'arte elements with the more refined French comedy. Through the patronage of aristocrats including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Stage Actresses
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Pierre De Marivaux
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (4 February 1688 – 12 February 1763), commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French playwright and novelist. He is considered one of the most important French playwrights of the 18th century, writing numerous comedies for the Comédie-Française and the Comédie-Italienne of Paris. His most important works are '' Le Triomphe de l'amour'', ''Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard'' and ''Les Fausses Confidences''. He also published a number of essays and two important but unfinished novels, '' La Vie de Marianne'' and ''Le Paysan parvenu''. Life His father was a Norman financier whose name from birth was Carlet, but who assumed the surname of Chamblain, and then that of Marivaux. He brought up his family in Limoges and Riom, in the province of Auvergne, where he directed the mint. Marivaux is said to have written his first play, the ''Père prudent et équitable'', when he was only eighteen, but it was not published until 1712, when he was twenty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval
Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval (6 April 1767, in Rennes – 1 September 1842, in Paris) was a French dramatist, sailor, architect, actor, theatre manager. He was the eighth member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1812. Duval was brother to the diplomat Amaury Duval (1760–1838). Bibliography * ''Les Projets de mariage'' (1790) * ''Les Tuteurs vengés'' (1794) *''La Manie d'être quelque chose'' (1795) *''Le Défenseur officieux'' (1795) *''La Jeunesse de Richelieu'' (1796) *''Les Héritiers ou le Naufrage'', comédie en 1 acte et en prose (représentée pour la première fois le 27 novembre 1796) *''Maison à vendre'' (1800) ; *''Édouard en Écosse'' (1801), en 3 actes et en prose *''Guillaume le Conquérant'' (1803) *''Shakespeare amoureux'' (1804) *''Le Menuisier de Livonie'' (1805) *''Le Tyran domestique'', en 5 actes et en vers (1805) *''La Jeunesse d'Henri V'', en 3 actes (1806) *''Le faux Stanislas'' (1809) *''Le Chevalier d'industrie'' en 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bajazet (play)
''Bajazet'' () is a five-act tragedy by Jean Racine written in alexandrine verse and first performed at the Hôtel de Bourgogne theatre in January 1672, after ''Berenice'', and before ''Mithridate''. Like Aeschylus in ''The Persians'', Racine took his subject from contemporary history, taking care to choose a far off location, the Ottoman Empire. In 1635, the sultan Murad IV (Amurat, in the work of Racine) had his brothers and potential rivals Bajazet ( Bayezid) and Orcan (Orhan) executed. Racine was inspired by this deed, and centered his play on Bajazet. Racine also develops several romantic subplots in the seraglio. The action is particularly complex, and can only be resolved by a series of deaths and suicides. The initial success of the play was not prolonged. Today, it is one Racine's least played pieces. In 1717 it was staged in London's Drury Lane Theatre under the title '' The Sultaness'' after being rewritten by Charles Johnson. The character of Bajazet in the op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andromaque
''Andromaque'' is a tragedy in five acts by the French playwright Jean Racine written in alexandrine verse. It was first performed on 17 November 1667 before the court of Louis XIV in the Louvre in the private chambers of the Queen, Marie Thérèse, by the royal company of actors, called "les Grands Comédiens", with Thérèse Du Parc in the title role. The company gave the first public performance two days later in the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris. ''Andromaque'', the third of Racine's plays, written at the age of 27, established its author's reputation as one of the great playwrights in France. Origins of the play Euripides' play ''Andromache'' and the third book of Virgil's ''Aeneid'' were the points of departure for Racine's play. The play takes place in the aftermath of the Trojan War, during which Andromache's husband Hector, son of Priam, has been slain by Achilles and their young son Astyanax has narrowly escaped a similar fate at the hands of Ulysses, who has unknowi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry VIII (play)
''Henry VIII'' is a collaborative history play, written by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, based on the life of Henry VIII. An alternative title, , is recorded in contemporary documents, with the title not appearing until the play's publication in the First Folio of 1623. Stylistic evidence indicates that individual scenes were written by either Shakespeare or his collaborator and successor, John Fletcher. It is also somewhat characteristic of the late romances in its structure. It is noted for having more stage directions than any of Shakespeare's other plays. During a performance of ''Henry VIII'' at the Globe Theatre in 1613, a cannon shot employed for special effects ignited the theatre's thatched roof (and the beams), burning the original Globe building to the ground. Characters * Prologue/Epilogue * Henry VIII – King of England * Cardinal Wolsey – Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor; initially, Henry's chief adviser * Queen Katherine – later d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Othello
''Othello'' (full title: ''The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice'') is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, probably in 1603, set in the contemporary Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573) fought for the control of the Island of Cyprus, a possession of the Venetian Republic since 1489. The port city of Famagusta finally fell to the Ottomans in 1571 after a protracted siege. The story revolves around two characters, Othello and Iago. Othello is a Moorish military commander who was serving as a general of the Venetian army in defence of Cyprus against invasion by Ottoman Turks. He has recently married Desdemona, a beautiful and wealthy Venetian lady much younger than himself, against the wishes of her father. Iago is Othello's malevolent ensign, who maliciously stokes his master's jealousy until the usually stoic Moor kills his beloved wife in a fit of blind rage. Due to its enduring themes of passion, jealousy, and race, ''Othello'' is still topical and popular and is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Francois Ducis
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Népomucène Lemercier
Louis Jean Népomucène Lemercier (20 April 1771 – 7 June 1840) was a French poet and playwright. Life Lemarcier was born in Paris. His father had been intendant successively to the duc de Penthièvre, the comte de Toulouse and the unfortunate princesse de Lamballe, who was the boy's godmother. Lemercier was a prodigy; before he was sixteen his tragedy of ''Méléagre'' was produced at the Théâtre Français. ''Clarisse Harlowe'' (1792) provoked the criticism that the author was "''pas assez roué pour peindre les roueries''" (not enough scamp to depict scamp tricks.) ''Le Tartufe révolutionnaire'' a parody full of bold political allusions, was suppressed after the fifth performance. In 1795, Lemercier's masterpiece ''Agamemnon'', called by Charles Lafitte the last great antique tragedy in French literature, was produced. It was a great success, but was violently attacked later by Julien Louis Geoffroy who stigmatized it as a bad caricature of Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Barber Of Seville (play)
''The Barber of Seville or the Useless Precaution'' (french: Le Barbier de Séville ou la Précaution inutile) is a French play by Pierre Beaumarchais, with original music by Antoine-Laurent Baudron. It was initially conceived as an opéra comique, and was rejected as such in 1772 by the Comédie-Italienne. The play as it is now known was written in 1773, but, due to legal and political problems of the author, it was not performed until February 23, 1775, at the Comédie-Française in the Tuileries. It is the first play in a trilogy of which the other constituents are '' The Marriage of Figaro'' and '' The Guilty Mother''. Though the play was poorly received at first, Beaumarchais worked some fast editing of the script, turning it into a roaring success after three days. The play's title might be a pun on Tirso de Molina's earlier play ''El Burlador de Sevilla'' (''The Trickster of Seville''). Mozart wrote a set of 12 variations, K. 354, on one of Baudron's songs, "". Syno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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