| Alfred de Musset: Seven Plays: Marianne; Fantasio; Don't Trifle with Love; The Candlestick; A Diversion; A Door Must Be Kept Open or Shut; You Can't Contributor(s): Musset, Alfred De (Author), Meyer, Peter (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1840025867 ISBN-13: 9781840025866 Publisher: Oberon Books OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 842.7 |
| Series: Oberon Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.2" W x 8.3" (0.81 lbs) 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Marianne, Fantasio, Don't Trifle With Love, The Candlestick, A Diversion, A Door Must be Open or Shut, You Can't Think of Everything The seven plays in this collection share a light-hearted tone, though with occasional and unexpected moments of seriousness. In Marianne, a confirmed cynic intercedes with a married woman on behalf of his best friend. In the eponymous hero of the modern 'fairy tale' Fantasio, by turns imaginative, abrupt and perceptive, Musset provides us with a compelling self-portrait. Don't Trifle with Love shows the dangerous strategems of two childhood sweethearts, supposedly destined for marriage. In The Candlestick, an infatuated clerk is set up as a decoy by his employer's young wife and her lover. The one-act plays A Diversion, A Door Must be Open or Shut and You Can't Think of Everything deal, in witty, epigrammatic style, with various aspects of romance: a wife and her friend test her husband's fidelity, or lack of it; a man wants to propose to his bantering, blas hostess; and a couple in love, one absent-minded, the other forgetful, tries to concentrate long enough to get married. |