French Tragedy in the Reign of Louis XVI: And the Early Years of the French Revolution, 1774-1792 |
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... hero had become leader of the forces arrayed against his city . Gudin follows Livy in naming the mother Véturie and is the first French dramatist to make her the only woman brought upon the stage . He makes an important character of ...
... hero had become leader of the forces arrayed against his city . Gudin follows Livy in naming the mother Véturie and is the first French dramatist to make her the only woman brought upon the stage . He makes an important character of ...
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... hero , but who in the end accepts his point of view . In only one tragedy does he fail to appear on the stage . The hero should be a warrior and a lover who gets what he wants in the end except in the first version of Nadir . A villain ...
... hero , but who in the end accepts his point of view . In only one tragedy does he fail to appear on the stage . The hero should be a warrior and a lover who gets what he wants in the end except in the first version of Nadir . A villain ...
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... hero and heroine dig their graves in silence , except when the hero is allowed by the abbot to speak and when the heroine is about to die . There is nothing to relieve the solemnity of the tragedy except the account of the hero's ...
... hero and heroine dig their graves in silence , except when the hero is allowed by the abbot to speak and when the heroine is about to die . There is nothing to relieve the solemnity of the tragedy except the account of the hero's ...
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Tragedy in the New Theater April 1782June 1789 | 85 |
MarieJoseph Chénier and J L Laya 17861792 | 105 |
CharlesPhilippe Ronsin and VincentAntoine Arnault | 119 |
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