Word: stael
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reference and research, "Le Dictionarire de l'Academie Francaise," Littre's Dictionary, Larousse's: "Dictionaire Universel" and "La Grande Encyclopedia." Among the complete sets are numbered those of Corneille, La Fontaine, La Rochefoucaud, Molicre, Racine, Madame de Levigne, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Concerdet, Diderot, Rousseau, Buffon, Beaumarchais, Chateaubriand, Mme, de Stael, LaMartine, Hugo, Dumas, Balzac, Taine and Daudet...
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...