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E. F. Varez
Emmanuel François Varez called E. F. Varez (17 October 1780 – 8 September 1866) was an early 19th-century French playwright and novelist. Born in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, Varez was a dramaturge at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique and the Théâtre de la Gaîté and his plays were presented, with some exceptions, on the stages of these two theatres. He died in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Works * ''Le Gourmand puni'', comedy in 1 act, 1803 * ''La Fille coupable, repentante'', melodrama in 3 acts, extravaganza, 1804 * ''Une journée de Frédéric II, roi de Prusse'', comédie-anecdote, in 1 act and in prose, 1804 * ''Le Criminel invisible'', novel, 2 vol, Lacourière, 1807 * ''Frédéric de Guéréhard, duc de Lorraine'', novel, 2 vol, Masson, 1808 * ''L'Homme de la forêt'', novel, 2 vol, Collin, 1808 * ''Métusko, ou les Polonais'', melodrama in 3 acts, extravaganza, from the novel by Pigault-Lebrun, with Séville, 1808 * ''Frédéric duc de Nevers'', melod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1st Arrondissement Of Paris
The 1st arrondissement of Paris (''Ier arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is colloquially referred to as ''le premier'' (the first). It is governed locally together with the 2nd, 3rd and 4th arrondissement, with which it forms the 1st sector of Paris ( Paris-Centre). Also known as ''Louvre'', the arrondissement is situated principally on the right bank of the River Seine. It also includes the west end of the Île de la Cité. The locality is one of the oldest areas in Paris, the Île de la Cité having been the heart of the city of Lutetia, conquered by the Romans in 52 BC, while some parts on the right bank (including Les Halles) date back to the early Middle Ages. It is the least populated of the city's arrondissements and one of the smallest by area, with a land area of only 1.83 km2 (0.705 sq. miles, or 451 acres). A significant part of the area is occupied by the Louvre Museum and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaudeville
Vaudeville (; ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment born in France at the end of the 19th century. A vaudeville was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a dramatic composition or light poetry, interspersed with songs or ballets. It became popular in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s, but the idea of vaudeville's theatre changed radically from its French antecedent. In some ways analogous to music hall from Victorian Britain, a typical North American vaudeville performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. Types of acts have included popular and classical musicians, singers, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, ventriloquists, strongmen, female and male impersonators, acrobats, clowns, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hippolyte Rimbaut
Hippolyte Louis Rimbaut (1818–1888) was a 19th-century French playwright. A collaborator with ''Le Temps'', his plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the first half of the 19th century, including the Théâtre du Panthéon, the Théâtre de l'Ambigu, and the Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques. Contrary to what some sources can write,For example, Marc-Antoine Legrand, ''Cartouche ou Les voleurs'', 2003, (p. 338) it was not a pseudonym for Fulgence de Bury. Works * ''Diane de Poitiers, ou Deux fous et un roi'', drama in 3 acts, with Charles Desnoyer, 1833 * ''Le Fils de Ninon'', drama in 3 acts, mingled with songs, with Jacques-François Ancelot and E. F. Varez, 1834 * ''Angélina'', drama in 3 acts, mingled with songs, 1835 * ''Vaugelas, ou le Ménage d'un savant'', comédie en vaudeville in 1 act, with Desnoyer, 1836 * ''L'Honneur de ma mère'', drama in 3 acts, with Auguste-Louis-Désiré Boulé, 1837 * ''Guillaume Norwood, ou Une haine de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques-François Ancelot
Jacques-Arsène-Polycarpe-François Ancelot (9 January 1794 – 7 September 1854) was a French dramatist and litterateur. Biography Born in Le Havre, Ancelot became a clerk in the admiralty, and retained his position until the Revolution of 1830. In 1816 his play ''Warwick'' was accepted by the Théâtre Français, but never produced, and three years later a five-act tragedy, ''Louis IX'', was staged. Three editions of the play were speedily exhausted; it had a run of fifty representations, and brought him a pension of 2000 francs from Louis XVIII. His next work, ''Le Maire du palais'', was played in 1825 with less success; but for it he received the cross of the Légion d'honneur. In 1824 he produced ''Fiesque'', a clever adaptation of Schiller's '' Fiesco''. In 1828 appeared ''Olga, ou l'orpheline russe'', the plot of which had been inspired by a voyage he made to Russia in 1826. About the same period he produced in succession ''Marie de Brabant'' (1825), a poem in six cant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lubize
Lubize, real name Pierre-Michel Martin or Martin-Lubize (21 February 1798 (3 ventôse an VI) registre des naissances de l'an VI pour la ville de Bayonne, Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques. – 28 January 1863 Acte n°125 () registre des décès de l'année 1863 pour le 9e arrondissement, Archives numérisées de la Ville de Paris.) was a 19th-century French |
Armand Joseph Overnay
Armand Joseph Overnay (1 November 1798 – 14 September 1869) was a 19th-century French chansonnier and playwright. He was a son of the chansonnier Nicolas Jean Marie Overnay (born in 1769), one of the members of the Soupers de Momus, and an examiner of dramatic works. Armand Joseph Overnay's plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, the Théâtre du Gymnase, and the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Antoine. Works *1819: ''Les Bolivars et les Morillos'', caricatures in action, in 1 act mingled with vaudevilles, with Gabriel de Lurieu *1820: ''Le Mari confident'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Jean Berrier and E. F. Varez *1821: ''L'Épicurien malgré lui'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Berrier *1823: ''Les Deux Lucas'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Berrier *1823: ''Fanny'', melodrama in 3 acts, xtravaganza, with Lamarque de Saint-Vict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques-André Jacquelin
Jacques-André Jacquelin (18 March 1776 – 13 August 1827) was a French playwright, lyricist, chansonnier, goguettier and poet. Biography A chief clerk at the Ministry of War, he became inspector of secondary theaters of Paris. Jacquelin authored about forty plays, all of which are now long forgotten, and the ''Dictionnaire historique abrégé des hommes célèbres depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours''. He was a member of the of which he became general secretary in 1815. Works ;Theatre * ''La Nièce de ma tante Aurore, ou la Manie des romans'', one-act comedy, Paris, Théâtre de la rue de Thionville, 7 March 1794 * ''Les Fureurs de l'amour'', tragédie burlesque in 7 scenes and in verse, with Joseph-Henri Flacon Rochelle, Paris, Jeunes-Artistes, 9 June 1798 * ''Jean La Fontaine'', comédie anecdotique in 1 act and i prose, mingled with vaudevilles, Paris, Jeunes-Artistes, 23 September 1798 * ''L’Enfant de l’amour'', suite des ''Fureurs de l’amou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Antier
Benjamin Antier, real name Benjamin Chevrillon, (21 March 1787 – 25 April 1870), was a 19th-century French playwright. An author of melodramas and vaudevilles written in collaboration with other dramatists, he is mostly known for his drama ''L'Auberge des Adrets'', premiered in 1823. The play featured the villain Robert Macaire, played on stage by Frédérick Lemaître, who, in 1835, wrote with Antier a second play called ''Robert Macaire''. The character was then popularized by Daumier's caricatures to become, after James Rousseau's word in his ''Physiologie du Robert Macaire'', "the embodiment of our positive, selfish, greedy, liar, boastful era... basically blagueuse. In 1945, ''L'Auberge des Adrets'' would be the basis of Marcel Carné's film, ''Children of Paradise'', with Jean-Louis Barrault and Arletty. Most of his plays were signed "Benjamin", as it was then customary for melodrama writers and actors to make them known by their first names. He was made chevalier de la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One-act Play
A one-act play is a play that has only one act, as distinct from plays that occur over several acts. One-act plays may consist of one or more scenes. The 20-40 minute play has emerged as a popular subgenre of the one-act play, especially in writing competitions. One act plays make up the overwhelming majority of Fringe Festival shows including at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The origin of the one-act play may be traced to the very beginning of recorded Western drama: in ancient Greece, '' Cyclops'', a satyr play by Euripides, is an early example. The satyr play was a farcical short work that came after a trilogy of multi-act serious drama plays. A few notable examples of one act plays emerged before the 19th century including various versions of the Everyman play and works by Moliere and Calderon.Francis M. Dunn. ''Tragedy's End: Closure and Innovation in Euripidean Drama''. Oxford University Press (1996). One act plays became more common in the 19th century and are now a stand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Couplet
A couplet is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry. A couplet usually consists of two successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal (or closed) couplet, each of the two lines is end-stopped, implying that there is a grammatical pause at the end of a line of verse. In a run-on (or open) couplet, the meaning of the first line continues to the second. Background The word "couplet" comes from the French word meaning "two pieces of iron riveted or hinged together". The term "couplet" was first used to describe successive lines of verse in Sir P. Sidney's '' Arcadia '' in 1590: "In singing some short coplets, whereto the one halfe beginning, the other halfe should answere." While couplets traditionally rhyme, not all do. Poems may use white space to mark out couplets if they do not rhyme. Couplets in iambic pentameter are called ''heroic couplets''. John Dryden in the 17th century and Alexander Pope in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théodore Nézel
Théodore Nézel (25 February 1799 – 23 May 1854) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist. An employee at the ministry of public instruction, he was appointed managing director of the Théâtre du Panthéon in 1838. His plays, often signed "Théodore" or "Théodore N." were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century including the Théâtre de l'Ambigu, the Théâtre des Nouveautés, the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, and the Théâtre des Variétés. Works * ''La Famille irlandaise'', melodrama in 3 acts, 1821 * ''L'Aubergiste malgré lui'', comédie proverbe, with Nicolas Brazier, 1823 * ''La Chambre de Clairette, ou les Visites par la fenêtre'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Armand Joseph Overnay, 1825 * ''Les Deux réputations'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Overnay, 1825 * ''Six mois de constance'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with Overnay and Constant Berrier, 1825 * ''Le Banqueroutier'', melodrama in 3 acts, with Overn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine-Marie Coupart
Antoine-Marie Coupart (13 June 1780 – 19 October 1864) was an early 19th-century French playwright and chansonnier, as well as a dramaturge at the Théâtre du Palais Royal (1831–1864). Biography At first an employee in the administration of military transport in Paris and Liège (1796–1798), he joined then the office of newspapers and theaters and the Ministry of Police where he became deputy chief in 1813. He worked with the same title at the Ministry of the interior in 1820 and became head of that office in 1824. After he was put on retirement in 1829, he worked as secretary general of the Paris Opera. From 1822 to 1836, he was responsible for the publication of the ''Almanach des spectacles'' (twelve volumes). His plays were presented at the Théâtre des Variétés and at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique in Paris. Works *1803: ''Lucile ou l'amant à l'épreuve'', comedy in 1 act and in prose *1804: ''Toujours le même'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Joseph Servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
