Word: musset
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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...
...Doumic delivered his sixth lecture on Saturday afternoon on "The Theatre of Alfred de Musset." The translation of M. Doumic's summary follows...
...Plays of de Musset are the only theatrical works of French Romanticism which have lasted. They were not written to be played, and this fact partly explains their character and value. Some of the plays are merely amusing trifles, now out of fashion...
Fantasio shows the fantastic character of the author's writing, both in Fantasio's conversation and in the strange method he takes to prevent Elizabeth's marriage. De Musset was one of the best painters of the young girl. Elizabeth is the type of the young girl of Romanticism. Cecilia is not a romantic type but a simple candid young girl...
...Babine pas avec l' Amour" is the deepest and most substantial dramatic work of de Musset. In it the author has put most of his vivacity, gaiety and eloquence...