Three Plays by Brieux
by Eugène Brieux
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About this eBook
- Author
- Brieux, Eugène, 1858-1932
- Title
- Three Plays by Brieux With a Preface by Bernard Shaw
- Credits
- Produced by David Edwards, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
- Subject
- French drama -- Translations into English
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 46992
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46992
- Release Date
- September 28, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Three Plays by Brieux.
- 2.Contents
- 3.Preface By Bernard Shaw. — From Molière to Brieux. — How the XIX century found itself out. — Jack the Ripper. — Rise of the Scientific Spirit. — Zolaism as a Superstition. — The Passing of the Tragic Catastrophe and the Happy Ending. — The Difference between Brieux and Molière or Shakespear. — Brieux and the Boulevard. — The Pedantry of Paris. — How to Write a Popular Play. — Why the Critics are always Wrong. — The Interpreter of Life. — How the Great Dramatists torture the Public. — Brieux’s Conquest of London. — Parisian Stupidity. — Brieux and the English Theatre. — The Censorship in France and England. — Brieux and the English Censorship. — Taboo. — The Attitude of the People to the Literary Arts. — The Dread of the Original Thinker. — The Justification of Conventionality. — Why Les Hannetons was Censored. — Misadventure of a Frenchman in Westminster Abbey. — Marriage and Malthus. — Brieux and the Respectable Married Man. — Brieux shews the Other Side. — The Most Unmentionable of All Subjects. — Why the Unmentionable Must be Mentioned on the Stage. — Brieux and Voltaire. — As Good Fish in the Sea.
- 4.Maternity — ACT I — ACT II — ACT III
- 5.The Three Daughters of M. Dupont — ACT I — ACT II — ACT III — ACT IV
- 6.Damaged Goods — ACT I — ACT II — ACT III
- 7.Maternity — ACT I — ACT II — ACT III
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