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Félix Duquesnel
Félix Henri Duquesnel (2 July 1832 – 28 April 1915) was a French journalist, playwright and novelist. Biography He studied at the College Rollin, then at the Faculty of Law and was admitted to the bar which he quickly left to turn to journalism. A journalist at ''L'Illustration'', ''Je sais tout'' or ''Le Gaulois'' among other newspapers, Duquesne was theatre manager of the Théâtre de l'Odéon from 1866, of the Théâtre du Châtelet (with Émile Rochard) (1880-1882), then of the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin from 1884 to 1893. His plays were presented on the most significant Parisian stages of his time, including the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt, the Théâtre du Vaudeville, and the Théâtre des Capucines. He left an important correspondence with numerous personalities of the nineteenth century such as Émile Augier, Gustave Flaubert, Sainte-Beuve, Jules Sandeau, Adolphe d'Ennery, Xavier de Montépin, Jules Verne, Alexandre Dumas, Georges Sand. Works Theatre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Illustration
''L'Illustration'' was a weekly French language, French newspaper published in Paris from 1843 to 1944. It was founded by Édouard Charton with the first issue published on 4 March 1843, it became the first illustrated newspaper in France then, after 1906, the first international illustrated magazine; distributed in 150 countries. History In 1891, ''L'Illustration'' became the first French newspaper to publish a photograph. Many of these photographs came from syndicated photo-press agencies like Charles Chusseau-Flaviens, Chusseau-Flaviens, but the publication also employed its own photographers such as Léon Gimpel and others. In 1907, ''L'Illustration'' was the first to publish a color photography, ''color'' photograph. It also published Gaston Leroux' novel ''Le mystère de la chambre jaune'' as a Serial (literature), serial a year before its 1908 release. La Petite Illustration was the name of the supplement to L'Illustration that published fiction, plays, and other arts-relat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xavier De Montépin
Xavier Henri Aymon Perrin, Count of Montépin (10 March 1823 in Apremont, Haute-Saône – 30 April 1902 in Paris) was a popular French novelist.''Merriam Webster's Biographical Dictionary'' (1995) The author of serialised novels (feuilletons) and popular plays, he is best known for the 19th-Century best-seller, '' La Porteuse de pain'' ('' The Bread Peddler''), which was first published in '' Le Petit Journal'', from 1884 to 1889, and underwent many adaptations for theatre, film and television. ''Le Médecin des pauvres'' (''Physician to the Poor''), appeared in 1861 and was the subject of a plagiarism suit by author Louis-Étienne Jousserandot. Although the evidence was strongly in favour of Jousserandot, neither party prevailed and both parties were ordered to pay the court costs. ''Les Filles de plâtre'' (''The Daughters of the Plasterer''), appearing in 1855, was condemned as obscene and Perrin was tried and sentenced to three months in prison and a fine of 500 Francs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1913 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1913. Events *January – Acmeist poetry, with roots back to 1909 in literature, 1909, is officially born as a reaction to Russian Futurism. Manifestos are printed in the journal ''Apollon'' by Nikolay Gumilyov and Sergey Gorodetsky, with illustrative works by both, and by Anna Akhmatova, Vladimir Narbut, and Osip Mandelstam — the last with "Hagia Sophia". *January 1 – The German National Library is founded in Leipzig. *January 8 – Harold Monro founds the Poetry Bookshop in London, which becomes a noted literary meeting-place. *January 24 – Franz Kafka stops working on his novel ''Amerika'', which he never finishes. *March 24 – New Broadway theatre Palace Theatre (New York City), Palace Theatre opens at 1564 Broadway (at West 47th Street) in midtown Manhattan, New York City. *April 5 – Serialization of the adventures of Gaston Leroux's character :fr:Chéri-Bibi, Chéri-Bibi begins in Le Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1910 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1910. Events *January 8 – Serialisation of Gaston Leroux's novel ''The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra)'' concludes in the Paris newspaper ''Le Gaulois''. *April 20 – Halley's comet reappears after 76 years, and Mark Twain dies the day after the comet's perihelion. In his autobiography, Twain wrote, "I came in with Halley's comet in 1835. It's coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. The Almighty has said no doubt, 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'" *March – Lesotho author Thomas Mofolo completes his novel '' Chaka''; he leaves Morija suddenly and it is not published. *March 18 – The first movie version of Mary Shelley's ''Frankenstein'' ( 1818) is released in the U.S. by Edison Studios. One of the first horror films, it features unbilled the actor Charles Ogle as the monster. *March 30 – Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1909 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1909. Events *January – T. E. Hulme's poems "Autumn" and "A City Sunset" are included in the Poets' Club anthology ''For Christmas MDCCCCVIII'', as the first examples of Imagism. *January 15 – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's drama ''La donna è mobile'' opens at the :it:Teatro Alfieri, Teatro Alfieri, Turin. *February 1 – The first issue appears of ''La Nouvelle Revue Française'', a literary magazine founded in Paris by André Gide, Jacques Copeau, Jean Schlumberger, Gaston Gallimard, and others. *February 20 – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto first appears in the French newspaper ''Le Figaro''. *March 2 – Katherine Mansfield, while pregnant by another man, marries the singing teacher George Bowden, whom she barely knows. She leaves him the same evening to resume lesbian relations with Ida Baker. *April **The opening night of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's drama ''Le Roi bombance'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1905 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1905. Events *January–September – L. Frank Baum's ''Animal Fairy Tales'' appear in ''The Delineator'' magazine. *January 5 – Baroness Emma Orczy's play ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'', adapted by Julia Neilson and Fred Terry, who play the leads, makes its London debut at the New Theatre, followed shortly by publication of the novel. *January 16 – Neil Munro begins publishing his ''Vital Spark'' stories in the ''Glasgow Evening News''. *February – Upton Sinclair's novel ''The Jungle'' begins serialization in the American socialist newspaper '' Appeal to Reason''. *May 10 – The first stage performance in England of Oscar Wilde's tragedy ''Salome'' (the original version having been banned in 1892) takes place privately at the New Stage Club of the Bijou Theatre in Archer Street, London, with Millicent Murby in the title role, directed by Florence Farr. The author died in 1900. *July – Beatrix P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1904 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1904. Events *January **Mark Twain begins dictating his ''Autobiography of Mark Twain, Autobiography''. **The first issue of ''Süddeutsche Monatshefte'' is published in Munich by Paul Nikolaus Cossmann. *January 17 – Anton Chekhov's last play, ''The Cherry Orchard'' («Вишнëвый сад», ''Vishnevyi sad''), opens at the Moscow Art Theatre directed by Constantin Stanislavski. *February 25 – J. M. Synge's tragedy ''Riders to the Sea'' is first performed at Molesworth Hall, Dublin, by the Irish National Theatre Society. *March 1 – Sophie Radford de Meissner's translation of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's 1863 historical drama ''The Death of Ivan the Terrible, Ivan the Terrible'' is first played at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway theatre, Broadway, New York City, by Richard Mansfield. *April 24 – A Lithuanian press ban in the Russian Empire is lifted. Petras Vileišis installs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1895 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1895. Events *January – The Ottoman illustrated magazine '' Servet-i Fünun'' is taken over by Tevfik Fikret, who turns it into a vehicle for ''Edebiyat-ı Cedide'' ("New Literature"). These writers are committed to conservatism and Ottomanism, rather than Turkish nationalism, but also favor Westernization. They use a "recondite and obscure" Ottoman language within the framework of aestheticism. *January–May – H. G. Wells' first "scientific romance", the novella ''The Time Machine'', is published serially in ''The New Review'' (London). The first book editions are published by Henry Holt and Company in New York on May 7 and Heinemann in London on May 29. *January 3 – The première of Oscar Wilde's comedy ''An Ideal Husband'' takes place at the Haymarket Theatre in London. *January 5 **The première of Henry James's historical drama ''Guy Domville'' held at St James's Theatre in London is boo ... [...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] |
Maurice Hennequin
Maurice Hennequin (10 December 1863 – 3 September 1926) was a French-naturalized Belgian playwright. Biography A great-grandson of the painter Philippe-Auguste Hennequin, Maurice Hennequin was the son of Alfred Hennequin (1842–1887), himself a playwright, who created a kind of vaudeville, with a complex plot but rigorously structured, nicknamed "hennequinade" The young Maurice began in the world of theater at the age of 19 in 1882, sometimes helped by his father during his early years. In a 45-year long career, he gave nearly a hundred plays, mostly comedies and vaudevilles, written either alone or in collaboration. Many of these works experienced vivid success, such as ''Le Système Ribadier'', written in collaboration with Georges Feydeau, or ''Vous n'avez rien à déclarer ?'', quoted by one character in the play ''A Flea in Her Ear'' by Feydeau, and twice adapted for film. Some of his plays even experienced real triumph, like ''Le Monsieur de cinq heures'' with 568 per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Barde
André Barde was the pseudonym of André Bourdonneau (July 1874, Meudon – October 1945, Paris), a French writer best known for his libretti for operettas. He was active from 1899-1936. He frequently collaborated with Charles Cuvillier Charles Cuvillier (24 April 1877 – 14 February 1955) was a French composer of operetta. He won his greatest successes with the operettas ''La reine s'amuse'' (1912, played as ''The Naughty Princess'' in London) and with '' The Lilac Domino'', ... - ''Son petit frère'' (1907), ''Afgar'' (1909), ''La Reine joyeuse'' (1912), ''Florabella'' (1921), and ''Nonnette'' (1922) being some examples. His works include '' Pas sur la bouche'' (1925; in English: "Not on the Mouth"), which has been filmed twice. External links Barde at the ECMF 1874 births 1945 deaths French musical theatre lyricists French opera librettists People from Meudon French male dramatists and playwrights {{Opera-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prologue
A prologue or prolog (from Greek πρόλογος ''prólogos'', from πρό ''pró'', "before" and λόγος ''lógos'', "word") is an opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier story that ties into the main one, and other miscellaneous information. The Ancient Greek ''prólogos'' included the modern meaning of ''prologue'', but was of wider significance, more like the meaning of preface. The importance, therefore, of the prologue in Greek drama was very great; it sometimes almost took the place of a romance, to which, or to an episode in which, the play itself succeeded. Latin On the Latin stage the prologue was often more elaborate than it was in Athens, and in the careful composition of the poems which Plautus prefixes to his plays we see what importance he gave to this portion of the entertainment; sometimes, as in the preface to the ''Rudens'', Plautus rises to the height of his genius in his adroit and romantic prolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
