Word: sardou
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...been opened by Ibsen. A star play tries to exploit a single personality and so spoils the harmony of the whole. For this reason no great writer has ever written star plays. The difference between the plays of a generation ago and of today may be seen by comparing Sardou and Ibsen. Sardon is theatrical and mechanical, while Ibsen is perfectly natural. He shows only the finer parts of his characters' lives and therefore in order to act Ibsen it is necessary for the actor to study the life of the character from childhood up. Real dramatic appreciation is rare...
Victorien Sardou (1831) is the most clever dramatic writer that we can imagine. He attained success in all branches of literature. His "Odette" (1881) and "Georgette" (1885) are essays of comedies with a thesis. M. Sardou has written even "operettes," "bouffes," and in "Le Roi Carotte," he tried poetry. He also treated of social studies. Quite recently he took the opportunity offered by the literary napoleonism of new fashion in France, to give us his curious innovation of "Madame Sans Gene...
Though M. Sardou has written nearly always in prose, he taught even to the poets, the art of dramatic situations, in which he is a master. It would be easy to find the trace of his influence even in the charming and superb alexandrines of M. Edmond Rostand...
...subject of the lecture this afternoonis; "Les Maitres du Theatre contemporain: Augier' Dumas fils, Meilhac et Halevy, Sardou." Admission will be by ticket until 4.25, when the doors will be thrown open to the public...
Lectures on the Modern French Drama. I. Les Maitres du Theatre contemporain: Augier, Dumas fils, Meilhac et Halevy, Sardou. M. Gaston Deschamps, Sanders Theatre, 4.30 p. m. Admission by ticket only till 4.25 p. m., then open to the public...