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Research Topics on: french comedy

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Books on: french comedy

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Encyclopedia Articles on: french comedy

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  • French Literature
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...pieces, many of them comedies and fantasies, were...performed by nonclerics. French prose literature began...had great impact on French and foreign thought...the great writers of comedy were Pierre de Marivaux...de Beaumarchais . The French novel Diderot and Marivaux...
     
  • Dumas, Alexandre (Dumas Fils), 1824–95, French Dramatist and Novelist
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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    ...ALEXANDRE (Dumas fils), 1824 95, French dramatist and novelist known...aleksaN dr duma , fes, 1824 95, French dramatist and novelist, illegitimate...creator of the 19th-century comedy of manners. His first important...of the disreputable world of French society. In later plays Dumas...
     
  • MoliÈre, Jean Baptiste Poquelin
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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    ...poklaN molyer , 1622 73, French playwright and actor, b...Moliere was the creator of French high comedy; his genius lay in exposing...dellarte , he wrote farces, comedies, masks, and ballets on short...often called the first comedy of manners and Le Malade imaginaire...was fatally stricken. Also comedies of character, but depending...
     
  • English Literature
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...elements of classical Roman comedy with native burlesque. During...the first to write romantic comedy; the versatile Thomas Lodge...Elizabethan age. His history plays, comedies, and tragedies set a standard...George Chapman , the masters of comedy Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger...reveals both the influence of French farce (the English court spent...
     
  • CoppÉe, FranÇois
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    COPPEE, FRANCOIS fraNswa kopa , 1842 1908, French poet and dramatist. He won fame with the one-act comedy Le Passant (1869, tr. 1881), in which Sarah Bernhardt made her first successful appearance. His early verse, as in Le Reliquaire...
     

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