Les Avariés
''Les Avariés'' (, "The Damaged Ones")Sprinchorn, Evert. "Syphilis, the Unmentionable Disease". ''Ibsen's Kingdom: The Man and His Works'', New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021, pp. 307-319. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300256246-033 is a 1901 play written by French playwright Eugène Brieux. Controversially, the play centred on the effect of syphilis on a marriage, at a time when sexually transmitted diseases were a taboo topic rarely openly discussed. For this reason, it was censored for some time in France and later in England. An English translation by Sir John Pollock, 4th Baronet, John Pollock under the title ''Damaged Goods'' was published in 1911 and staged in the United States and Britain, including a run on Broadway theatre, Broadway in 1913 starring Richard Bennett (actor), Richard Bennett. It was later the subject of several film adaptations. The first, Damaged Goods (1914 film), a 1914 silent film also starring Bennett, inspired a craze of subsequent sex hygiene ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]