Word: plot
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...modern dramas, "Ties" (Les Teuailles), by Paul Hervieu, was given at the Tremont Theatre, yesterday afternoon. The play itself is representative of the tendencies of the modern French drama, and, as in many of its class, the author has been led by the purely psychological interest of his plot to overdraw his principal character, Robert Fergan, and to suit the demands of his climax rather than to fit the climax to his character. With this climax still in view, he has brought in a period of ten years between the second and third acts, which even the long and rather...
...well worth mentioning. "Ruth," by J. A. Graydon '01, is the third of a series of Irish folk tales, which the writer is contributing to the Advocate. The scene of the story is Rosselea, and the characters are a Catholic priest and a family of peasants. There is less plot and characterization in "Ruth," than in either of the two previous tales; but the story is clear, vigorous and wholesome. Two lovers quarrel and separate, but are again joined at a crisis in the life of the heroine. Simple and straightforward, "Ruth" is the type of story that the undergraduate...
...false idea that the whole play centers around Granger. The chief character is Corbineli, who runs the plot, upon whom the whole effect depends, and who is the life and soul of the comedy. Next in importance is Chateaufort, the boaster, who is always trying to ruin some one. Pierre Paquier is the stupid servant who acts as messenger between Granger and Genevote. These three characters are the chief comedians, who turn the play from a tragedy to a comedy...
...following is a synopsis of the plot of Le Pedant Joue...
...tells Corbineli, Charlot Granger's servant, to arrange a comedy for the celebration. Corbineli is also told to make Charlot Granger drunk in order to keep him out of the way until Genevote and Granger are married. Corbineli, who is still in league with his young master, arranges a plot by which Charlot is to feign death, as though he had been killed in a drunken brawl. Genevote is to agree to marry Granger on condition of being allowed to go through the marriage ceremony with a supposed corpse first, and at the proper time Charlot is to resuscitate. Paquier...