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Henry Villemot
Henry Villemot (c.1796–1870) was a 19th-century French playwright. Works *1823: ''Le Vendredi d'un usurier'', comedy in 1 act *1823: ''Les Hussards dans l'étude'', folie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Jules Dulong *1824: ''Le Plâtrier ou la double accusation'', melodrama in 2 acts, with Théodore Nézel *1824: ''La Prise de Tarifa'', mélodrame militaire historique in 1 act, with Nézel and Ferdinand Laloue *1825: ''Le Flâneur'', comédie vaudeville in 1 act *1825: ''Le Chemin creux'', melodrama in 3 acts, extravaganza *1825: ''Les Ruines de la Granca'', mélodrame in 3 acts, with Dulong and Saint-Amand *1826: ''L'Amour et les poules'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act *1827: ''Le Garde et le bucheron'', melodrama in 2 tableaux *1828: ''Bisson'', melodrama in 2 acts and in 5 parts, extravaganza, with Benjamin Antier and Nézel *1828: ''Le Remplaçant'', melodrama in 3 acts, with Antier *1829: ''La Partie d'ânes'', folie in 1 act *1830: ''La Prise de la Bastille, gloire populaire et ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder (as in a wheelwright or cartwright). The words combine to indicate a person who has "wrought" words, themes, and other elements into a dramatic form—a play. (The homophone with "write" is coincidental.) The first recorded use of the term "playwright" is from 1605, 73 years before the first written record of the term "dramatist". It appears to have been first used in a pejorative sense by Ben Jonson to suggest a mere tradesman fashioning works for the theatre. Jonson uses the word in his Epigram 49, which is thought to refer to John Marston: :''Epigram XLIX — On Playwright'' :PLAYWRIGHT me reads, and still my verses damns, :He says I want the tongue of epigrams ; :I have no salt, no bawdry he doth mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Dulong
Jules is the French form of the Latin "Julius" (e.g. Jules César, the French name for Julius Caesar). It is the given name of: People with the name * Jules Aarons (1921–2008), American space physicist and photographer *Jules Abadie (1876–1953), French politician and surgeon *Jules Accorsi (born 1937), French football player and manager *Jules Adenis (1823–1900), French playwright and opera librettist *Jules Adler 1865–1952), French painter *Jules Asner (born 1968), American television personality *Jules Aimé Battandier (1848–1922), French botanist * Jules Bernard (born 2000), American basketball player * Jules Bianchi (1989–2015), French Formula One driver * Jules Breton (1827–1906), French Realist painter *Jules-André Brillant (1888–1973), Canadian entrepreneur * Jules Brunet (1838–1911), French Army general * Jules Charles-Roux (1841–1918), French businessman and politician * Jules Dewaquez (1899–1971), French footballer * Jules Marie Alphonse Jacques ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melodrama
A modern melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, typically sensationalized and for a strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization. Melodramas typically concentrate on dialogue that is often bombastic or excessively sentimental, rather than action. Characters are often flat, and written to fulfill stereotypes. Melodramas are typically set in the private sphere of the home, focusing on morality and family issues, love, and marriage, often with challenges from an outside source, such as a "temptress", a scoundrel, or an aristocratic villain. A melodrama on stage, filmed, or on television is usually accompanied by dramatic and suggestive music that offers cues to the audience of the drama being presented. In scholarly and historical musical contexts, ''melodramas'' are Victorian dramas in which orchestral music or song was used to accompany the action. The term is now also applied to stage performances without incidental music, novels, films, tel ... [...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] |
Ferdinand Laloue
Ferdinand Laloue (1794 in Passy – 27 September 1850) was a French dramatist, librettist and theatre producer. Administrator of the Théâtre du Cirque-Olympique, he also was director of the Hippodrome and the théâtre des Délassements comiques. His onerous plays with fastuous settings were performed on the most important Parisian stages (Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Théâtre du Châtelet, Théâtre des Variétés etc.). Works * ''Le Fort de la halle'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Michel-Nicolas Balisson de Rougemont and Pierre Carmouche, 1821 * ''Le Petit Georges, ou la Croix d'honneur'', comedy in 1 act, 1821 * ''La Bataille de Bouvines, ou le Rocher des tombeaux'', mimodrame in 3 acts, with René Perin, 1822 * ''L'Arabe hospitalier'', melodrama in 1 act, 1822 * ''La diligence attaquée, or L'auberge des Cévennes'', with Constant Ménissier and Ernest Renaud, 1822 * ''La Fille à marier ou La Double éducation'', comédie en va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extravaganza
An extravaganza is a literary or musical work (often musical theatre) usually containing elements of burlesque, pantomime, music hall and parody in a spectacular production and characterized by freedom of style and structure. It sometimes also has elements of cabaret, circus, revue, variety, vaudeville and mime. ''Extravaganza'' may more broadly refer to an elaborate, spectacular, and expensive theatrical production. 19th-century British dramatist, James Planché, was known for his extravaganzas. Planché defined the genre as "the whimsical treatment of a poetical subject."Planché. ''The recollections and reflections of J.R. Planché (Somerset herald): a professional biography'' (1872), Vol. II, p. 43 The term is derived from the Italian word ''stravaganza'', meaning extravagance. See also *Spectacle *Victorian burlesque Victorian burlesque, sometimes known as travesty or extravaganza, is a genre of theatrical entertainment that was popular in Victorian era, Victorian Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Amand (writer)
Saint-Armand, real name Jean-Armand Lacoste, (17 November 1797 – 13 January 1885) was a 19th-century French playwright. He was born and died in Paris. Saint-Armand wrote the famous drama '' l’Auberge des Adrets'' in collaboration with Benjamin Antier and Polyanthe. Works * ''La Folle de Toulon'', three-act drama, mingled with songs ; * ''Marie Rose ou la nuit de Noël'', three-act drama, with Adrien Payn, 1832 ; * ''Moellen ou l’Enfant du bonheur'', tableau populaire in 1 act, mingled with couplets ; * ''L’Oraison de Saint Julien'', three-act comédie en vaudeville ; * ''Péblo ou Le jardinier de Valence'', three-act melodrama A modern melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, typically sensationalized and for a strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization. Melodramas typically concentrate on dialogue that is often bombastic or exces .... Sources * Georges d’Heylli, ''Gazette anecdotique, littéraire, artistique et bibliog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tableau Vivant
A (; often shortened to ; plural: ), French language, French for "living picture", is a static scene containing one or more actors or models. They are stationary and silent, usually in costume, carefully posed, with props and/or scenery, and may be Theatre, theatrically lit. It thus combines aspects of theatre and the visual arts. A tableau may either be 'performed' live, or depicted in painting, photography and sculpture, such as in many works of the Romanticism, Romantic, Aestheticism, Aesthetic, Symbolism (arts), Symbolist, Pre-Raphaelite, and Art Nouveau movements. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, tableaux sometimes featured ('flexible poses') by virtually nude models, providing a form of Erotica, erotic entertainment, both on stage and in print. Tableaux continue to the present day in the form of living statues, street performers who busk by posing in costume. Origin Occasionally, a Mass (liturgy), Mass was punctuated with short dramatic scenes and paintin ... [...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] |
Henri Franconi
Henri Franconi, full name Jean Gérard Henri Franconi, (4 November 1779 – 22 July 1849) was a French playwright and circus performer of the early 19th century. A son of Antonio Franconi, in 1807 he became with his brother Laurent director of the Cirque-Olympique (1807-1837). An actor, a mime, an esquire, nicknamed ''Minette'', he authored pantomimes, dramas and vaudeville. Works *1808: ''Les Quatre fils Aymons'', equestrian scenes in 2 parts *1808: ''Cavalo-Dios, ou le Cheval génie bienfaisant'', equestrian scenes, mingled with féeries, in 2 parts, with Cuvelier *1808: ''Barberousse le Balafré, ou les Valaques'',equestrian and chivalrous scenes, in 2 parts, extravaganza, with Jean-Guillaume-Antoine Cuvelier *1808: ''Fra Diavolo, ou le Frère diable, chef de bandits dans les Alpes'', equestrian scenes in 2 parts, with Cuvelier *1808: ''La Prise de la Corogne, ou les Anglais en Espagne'', equestrian scenes *1810: ''Les chevaux vengés, ou Parodie de la parodie de Fernand C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Marie Quérard
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese and Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled ''Yūsuf''. In Persian, the name is "Yousef". The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century. In the first century CE, Joseph was the second most popular male name for Palestine Jews. In the Book of Genesis Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first son, and kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
