Word: marivaux
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this little group of plays is a combination of dreaming and reality, gaiety and sadness; a power of analysis, a delicacy of sentiment, and a strength of imagination which recall respectively Racine, Marivaux and Shakespeare...
Last evening in the Fogg Art Museum Professor de Sumichrast lectured on Goldsmith and Marivaux. He began by fully summarizing Goldsmith's play, "She Stoops to Conquer," and Marivaux's play "Le Jeu de I'Amour et du Hasard," quoting frequently from each. He proceded to draw a comparison between the two play wrights, vastly to the advantage of Marivaux. He said that Marivaux is superior to Goldsmith in construction and is more thoroughly artistic. In Marivaux's play the analysis is subtle and delicate, the characters carefully and minutely drawn, the interest concentrated throughout. Goldsmith's play is diffuse...
...subject for tonight is "Goldsmith and Marivaux." The lecture is open to the public...
Lecture. Goldsmith and Marivaux. Professor de Sumichrast. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...Goldsmith and Marivaux. Professor de Sumichrast...