Musset: Five Plays - (World Classics) (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>A collection of this major 19th century French playwright <p/><br>The Moods of Marianne dramatises Coelio's courtship of Marianne through his go-between friend Octave; Fantasio is set in a fictional Munich and concerns the marriage of a young princess to Leopold of Belgium as a sacrifice for international peace following the Napoleonic Wars; Lorenzaccio is a vast fresco of fifteenth-century Florence, mixing freely a depiction of public life, court intrigue, intimate scenes and moments of deep personal introspection; Don't Play with Love concerns an arranged marriage gone awry; and Caprice is about the marriage of Mathilde to Monsieur du Chavigny and is already about to cheat on her.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>An infant prodigy of French romanticism and much inspired by Shakespeare and Schiller, Alfred de Musset wrote the first modern dramas in the French language. This anthology of previously unpublished translations brings together the best of Musset theatre, which is also some of the best of French theatre of the nineteenth century. It is the first substantial collection of Musset's work to be made available in English translation and includes his masterpiece, Lorenzaccio, often referred to as the French Hamlet. The selection is introduced by Claude Schumacher.
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