Alfred de Musset: Seven Plays
Marianne; Fantasio; Don't Trifle with Love; The Candlestick; A Diversion; A Door Must Be Kept Open or Shut; You Can't Think of Everything
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Marianne, Fantasio, Don't Trifle With Love, The Candlestick, A Diversion, A Door Must be Open or Shut, You Can't Think of Everything
The seven plays in this collection share a light-hearted tone, though with occasional and unexpected moments of seriousness.
In Marianne, a confirmed cynic intercedes with a married woman on behalf of his best friend. In the eponymous hero of the modern 'fairy tale' Fantasio, by turns imaginative, abrupt and perceptive, Musset provides us with a compelling self-portrait. Don't Trifle with Love shows the dangerous strategems of two childhood sweethearts, supposedly destined for marriage. In The Candlestick, an infatuated clerk is set up as a decoy by his employer's young wife and her lover. The one-act plays A Diversion, A Door Must be Open or Shut and You Can't Think of Everything deal, in witty, epigrammatic style, with various aspects of romance: a wife and her friend test her husband's fidelity, or lack of it; a man wants to propose to his bantering, blasé hostess; and a couple in love, one absent-minded, the other forgetful, tries to concentrate long enough to get married.
Product details
| Published | 12 Aug 2005 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 280 |
| ISBN | 9781840025866 |
| Imprint | Oberon Books |
| Dimensions | 0 x 0 mm |
| Series | Oberon Modern Playwrights |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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