Alfred de Musset: Marianne, Fantasio - Don't Trifle With Love - The Candlestick - A Diversion - A Door Must Be Open Or Shut - You Can't Think Of Everything
Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2005
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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781783192830
Related ISBNs:
9781840025866
Publisher:
Oberon Books
Date of Addition:
04/19/18
Copyrighted By:
Oberon Books
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction ,
Drama, Plays and Theater
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Bookshare Staff
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