Word: ets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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From Boston M. Doumic goes directly to New York to deliver two lectures at Columbia this week, the first this afternoon on "La Societe Francaise et la Litterature d'Anjourd'hui," the second on Saturday afternoon on "Le Theatre d'Alfred de Musset." He will also lecture on "La Jeune Fille dans la Litterature Francaise" at the Delphi Academy, Brooklyn, on Saturday evening...
Cercle Francais. Lectures on French Romanticism. VIII. L'Histoire. Augustin Thierry et Michelet. Conclusion. M. Rene Doumic. Sanders Theatre...
...Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock M. Doumic will lecture in Association Hall, Boston, corner Berkeley and Boylston streets, on "Les Moeurs Francais et Les Romans Contemporains." The lecture is for the benefit of the Associated Charities. Tickets, $1 and $2 may be had at Herrick...
Cercle Francais. Lectures on French Romanticism. VIII. L'Histoire. Augustin Thierry et Michelet. Conclusion. M. Rene Doumic. Sanders Theatre...
Romanticism was most successful in lyric poetry; naturally it was least so on the stage. Classic tragedy was dead. Shakespeare and Schiller were used as models. Mme. de Stael wrote "L'Allemagne," Stendhal wrote "Racine et Shakespeare." Victor Hugo in his "Preface de Cromwell" defined the drama as a mixture of the tragic and the comic with an historic stage setting and with out the three unities. But these are not the real signs of the romantic drama. In fact there was a style of play which was increasing in popular favor as tragedy declined; this was the melodrama. Romantic...