LECOUVREUR, ADRIENNE

ädrēĕnˈ ləkoovrörˈ, 1692–1730, French actress. With Michel Baron she helped change the traditional acting techniques of the French stage to a simpler, more natural style. She was extremely popular from her debut at the Comédie Française in 1717. Her love for Maurice de Saxe ended in tragedy; her mysterious death was ascribed to poisoning by her rival, the duchesse de Bouillon. The Church's refusal to grant Lecouvreur a Christian burial resulted in a bitter poem by her friend Voltaire. She is the subject of a play by Scribe and Legouvé and of the opera Adriana Lecouvreur by Francesco Cilea.

See biography by J. Richtman (1971).

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books on: Lecouvreur Adrienne  - 148 results

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French Theatre in New York: A List of Plays, 1899-1939
Book by Hamilton Mason; Columbia University Press, 1940
Subjects: French Drama--Bibliography, Theater--New York (N.Y.)
...Paris, Odeon, March 11, 1903. 464. Jdrienne Lecouvreur: Adrienne Lecouvreur, Eugene Scribe and Ernest Legouve; producer...1908; 4 performances; with Olga Nethersole Adrienne Lecouvreur , Frank Mills Maurice , Charles A. Stevenson...
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The Theatre Handbook and Digest of Plays
Book by Bernard Sobel; Crown Publishers, 1940
Subjects: Drama--Dictionaries, Theater--Dictionaries
Lecouvreur, Adrienne 1692-1730 . French actress. Born at Damery, Marne, she first appeared...Saxe in 1721. She was the subject of Scribe and Legouves Adrienne Lecouvreur, a favorite role for Rachel and Bernhardt. John Oxenford, Fanny...
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The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature
Book by Eva Martin Sartori, Colette H. Winn, Perry Gethner, Samia I. Spencer, Juliette Parnell-Smith, Mary Rice-DeFosse, Susan Ireland, Patrice J. Proulx; Greenwood Press, 1999
Subjects: Feminism And Literature--Encyclopedias, French Literature--Encyclopedias, French Literature--Women Authors--Encyclopedias, Women Authors, French--Biography--Encyclopedias, Women In Literature--Encyclopedias
...Critical Theory 12 , no. 3 November 1989 : 197-213. Lecouvreur, Adrienne 1692-1730 . At age fifteen this actress and epistolary...from Mlle Fonpre, director of the Lille theater * , Lecouvreur acquired a reputation that led her to the Comedie...
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On Stage: A History of Theatre
Book by Vera Mowry Roberts; Harper & Row, 1962
Subjects: Theater--History
...368 , 370 , 376 Lautenschlager, Karl, 339 , 431 Lawson, John Howard, 452 , 479 Learned Ladies, The , 209 Lecouvreur, Adrienne, 314 , 315 , 319 , 501 Le Gallienne, Eva, 446 , 483 Leichner, Ludwig, 371 , 402 Lekain, 308 , 312 , 316...
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Voltaire and the Theatre of the Eighteenth Century
Book by Marvin Carlson; Greenwood Press, 1998
Subjects: Dramatists, French--18th Century--Biography, Theater--Europe--History--18th Century, Voltaire--1694-1778, Voltaire--1694-1778--Knowledge--Theater
...55 Larive Jean Mauduit , 157 , 160 Lauraguais, Louis Leon, Comte de , 113 , 116 Lausanne, theatre in, 98 Lecouvreur, Adrienne, 14 - 16 , 19 , 39 - 40 , 54 , 74 Leipzig, theatre in, 84 - 85 Lekain Henri Louis Cain , 47 , 74 , 79 , 87...
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journal articles on: Lecouvreur Adrienne  - 5 results

 
 
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Negotiating the Categories: Sarah Bernhardt and the Possibilities of Jewishness
Journal article by Janis Bergman-Carton; Art Journal, Vol. 55, 1996
Subjects: Actors, Bernhardt, Sarah, Bournand, Francois, France, Jews, Literary criticism, Perceptions, Viau, Raphael, Women
...that have been connected with images of the actress as Leah include the main characters in La Samaritaine and even Adrienne Lecouvreur. There are enough variations in the Leah photographs to imply that they functioned quite loosely for her, evoking...
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Charlotte Bronte's 'Villette': Forgeries of Sex and Self
Journal article by Laura E. Ciolkowski; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 26, 1994
Subjects: Bronte, Charlotte--Criticism, interpretation, etc., United Kingdom--History, 1837-1901 (Victorian era), Villette (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...great, interesting, and sometimes good and kind; the other, I know not what, I think a demon. I saw her in Adrienne Lecouvreur and in Camilla--in the last character I shall never forget her--she will come to me in sleepless nights again...
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From Saint Genesius to Kean: Actors, Martyrs, and Metatheater
Journal article by Mary Ann Frese Witt; Comparative Drama, Vol. 43, 2009
Subjects: Martyrs--Criticism and interpretation, Metatheater--Criticism and interpretation
...personality, that is, to his or her offstage existence. Nelson gives as examples Eugene Scribe and Ernest Legouves Adrienne Lecouvreur (1849) as well as Dumass Kean (1836). He goes solar as to say that "the fact that Kean is an actor is paradoxically...
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Gems from the Lord Chamberlain's Coal Cellars? an Informal Account of the Genesis, Progress and Results of the Buried Treasures Project
Journal article by Kathryn Johnson; Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, Vol. 36, 2009
Subjects: British culture, Censorship, Library cataloging, Theater, Theater studies
...of plays: Th e Corsican Brothers, Uncle Toms Cabin (and variants), Th e Colleen Bawn, Th e Dukes Motto, Adrienne Lecouvreur, and several others spawned sometimes as many as a dozen related versions, straight, operatic, or burlesque...
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Kongl. Svenska Theaterns Almanach 1779-1789 as a Resource for Gustavian Theater History
Journal article by Alan Swanson; Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 79, 2007
Subjects: Authors--Works, Kexel, Olof--Works, Kongl. Svenska Theaterns Almanach (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Theaters--History, Theaters--Services, Writers--Works
...theologian responds that he ended up in consecrated ground nevertheless, deploring, at the same time, the fact that Adrienne Lecouvreur, the finest tragic actress of her day, was refused all burial. The cleric speaks about the contradictions of...


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magazine articles on: Lecouvreur Adrienne  - 3 results

 
 
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Adriana Lecouvreur
Magazine article by Sophia Lambton; Musical Opinion, Vol. 134, January 2011
Adriana Lecouvreur by Sophia Lambton Francesco Cileas Adriana Lecouvreur, which premiered in 1902...Sarah Bernhardt, of the name Adrienne, who lived recklessly, loved...omens for the ill-fated Lecouvreur, from beginning to finish...
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George Gissing on Music: Italian Impressions
Magazine article by Allan W. Atlas; Musical Times, Vol. 142, Summer 2001
Subjects: Gissing, George (1857-1903), Italy, Literature, Music, Society
...Saw an opera, made out of Adrienne Lecouvreur. A large theatre, with six...p.172) But whose Adriana Lecouvreur did Gissing hear? it was not...Perosios work being `made out of Adrienne Lecouvreur, the drama by Eugene Scribe...
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The Pursuit of Happiness
Magazine article by Robert Darnton; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 19, Autumn 1995
Subjects: Happiness--Moral and ethical aspects, Utopias--Evaluation
...1730. His beloved mistress, the great actress Adrienne Lecouvreur, suddenly died after playing the lead in his tragedy...unceremonious disposal of her corpse. Death struck Adrienne Lecouvreur before she had time to renounce her profession and...


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encyclopedia articles on: Lecouvreur Adrienne  - 7 results

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Lecouvreur, Adrienne
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LECOUVREUR, ADRIENNE adreen l koovror , 1692 1730, French...Bouillon. The Churchs refusal to grant Lecouvreur a Christian burial resulted in a bitter...and Legouve and of the opera Adriana Lecouvreur by Francesco Cilea. See biography...
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Scribe, Augustin EugÈne
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...comedies, which are notable for their well-structured plots, is Bataille de Dames (1851). His historical drama Adrienne Lecouvreur (1849) was later adapted as an opera. Scribe wrote librettos for about 60 operas by such composers as Auber...
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Saxe, Maurice, Comte De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...work on the art of war. Maurice de Saxe was notorious for his amorous exploits and for his tragic liaison with Adrienne Lecouvreur . Among his descendants was George Sand. L. H. Thornton has translated (1944) Mes Reveries. See L. H. Thornton...
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Rachel , French Actress
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...major works of Racine and Corneille, Phedre (1843) being her best role. She created the title role in Scribes Adrienne Lecouvreur in 1849. Rachel appeared in the United States with fair success in 1855 (she knew little English) and on this...
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Modjeska, Helena
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1876 to the United States with her second husband. Despite her faulty English, she was an immediate success in Adrienne Lecouvreur in San Francisco a year later. Her portrayal (1883) of Nora in A Dolls House at Louisville, Ky., marked the...
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