Annals of the French Stage, Vol. 2 of 2: From Its Origin to the Death of Racine (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Hawkins, Frederick

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ISBN 10: 1330411218 ISBN 13: 9781330411216

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Annals of the French Stage, Vol. 2 of 2: From Its Origin to the Death of Racine

The next piece offered to the playgoers was at the Hotel de Bourgogne, in the shape of Thomas Corneille's Laodice (february). It did not succeed, for the simple reason that a hand much stronger than that of the author was needed to draw such a character as the queen who dies by her own hand on finding that the man she.

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Between Alcmene and Cléanthis a most dramatic contrast is displayed, the former being a pattern of tenderness, and the latter so inveterate a scold, "though all in affection," that Mercure is induced to keep out of her way as much as he can. If Armande looked and spoke like Alcmene it must have been a remarkable triumph of art over nature. Sosie, with his fine humour and quaint philosophy, is one of the best of Molière's characters, and was doubtless represented to perfection. His rehearsal of the intended speech to Alcmene, here represented by a lantern on the ground, is irresistible. It should be observed that the oft-quoted though ungrammatical lines

Le véritable Amphitryon
Est l'Amphitryon où l'on dîne,

are simply a variation of one which Rotrou had inserted in Les Sosies, and which had become proverbial, -

Point, point d'Amphitryon où l'on ne dîne point.

Mdlle. Lefevre, afterwards Madame Dacier, one of the most learned of her sex, refused to allow that Plautus had been eclipsed. In support of this view she wrote an elaborate dissertation, but a fear that Moliere might bring her on the stage led her to carefully suppress the manuscript.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330411218
• ISBN 13: 9781330411216
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 406