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  Pierre Marivaux
The elder Carlet de Marivaux was a man of good reputation, and he received the appointment of director of the mint at Riom in Auvergne, where and at Limoges the young Pierre was brought up.
He fell under the influence of Antoine Hondar[d] de La Motte, and thought to serve the cause of that ingenious paradoxer by travestying Homer, an ignoble task, which he followed up (perhaps, for it is not certain) by performing the same office in regard to Fénelon.
The personal character of Marivaux was curious and somewhat contradictory, though not without analogies, one of the closest of which is to be found in Oliver Goldsmith.
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 Pierre de Marivaux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (commonly known as Marivaux) (February 4, 1688 - February 12, 1763), French novelist and dramatist, was born at Paris.
Carlet de Marivaux was a man of good reputation, and he received the appointment of director of the mint at Riom in Auvergne, where and at Limôges the young Pierre was brought up.
The personal character of Marivaux was curious and somewhat contradictory, though not without analogies, one of the closest of which is to be found in Goldsmith.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pierre_de_Marivaux   (1678 words)

  
 Carlet, Pierre de Chamblain de Marivaux Criticism and Essays
Marivaux is recognized as an innovative dramatist who produced masterpieces of French comedy concerned with the discovery and denial of love.
Marivaux's earliest known play, Le Père prudent et equitable (The Just and Prudent Father), is a one-act comedy believed to have been written sometime between 1709 and 1711 and then produced privately.
Today, although a few of Marivaux's plays are dismissed for their lack of originality, most are judged to display liveliness, a variety of situations and characters, and a modern appeal which elevates them over the works of his contemporaries, including Voltaire.
www.enotes.com /drama-criticism/carlet-pierre-de-chamblain-de-marivaux   (818 words)

  
 ARTicles: Love Play - the theatre of Marivaux
The revolution that brought an end to the excesses of the aristocracy was itself born from a philosophical revolt, the Enlightenment, whose roots lay in the philosophical and mathematical discoveries of Descartes and Newton.
Marivaux may mock the philosophers' world-view as naïve and simplistic, but the play is no less critical of the amorous princess, whose quest for love leads her into a maze of duplicity and cruelty.
Marivaux structured the play around a bizarre rationalist experiment - a group of aristocrats try to simulate the conditions of the Garden of Eden to determine whether men or women are more unfaithful in love.
www.amrep.org /articles/1_3/dispute/loveplay.html   (1837 words)

  
 French literature - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The greatest prose of the period was produced in the fiction of the ebullient Rabelais and in the magnificent essays of Montaigne.
The works of the ecclesiastic François de la Mothe Fénelon, the social philosopher Claude Henri, comte de Saint-Simon, and the satirist and classical scholar Jean de La Bruyère belong to this illustrious period as well as to the 18th cent.
The French novel—Diderot and Marivaux contributed to its literary form—gained popularity with the works of Alain René Le Sage, Abbé Prevost, and Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and by the end of the century was among the foremost of literary genres.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Frenchli.html   (2020 words)

  
 Pierre Laclede - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Laclède, Pierre (1729-1778), French fur trader and founder of the city of St. Louis, Missouri.
Pierre, city, capital of South Dakota and seat of Hughes County, on the east bank of the Missouri River, near the geographical center of the state;...
Curie, Pierre (1859-1906), French physicist and Nobel laureate, best known for the work on radioactivity that he did with his wife, Marie Curie.
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 Performing arts students present romantic comedy by Marivaux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Marivaux's works were dismissed for many years as "superficial," Whitaker said, but finally are getting the attention they deserve.
Marivaux was born in Paris on Feb. 4, 1688.
Marivaux is credited for starting a new type of romantic comedy in which the characters fall in love despite their avowals not to do so.
record.wustl.edu /archive/1996/02-01-96/6881.html   (372 words)

  
 Corneille Pierre: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
Drama, Du Ryer, Pierre--D....as those of Corneille, Racine, and...Du Ryer was Pierres father; Isaacs...resemblance to Corneille; influence...Paris in 1642.
PIERRE DU RYER DRAMATIST...complimentary verses to Corneille as well; Bonnet, a nephew of Pierre Motin; E. Poncet...
Il sagit des vers du Cinna de Corneille, enonces par Auguste au moment de son...unique de la magnanimite partagee par Corneille et La Rochefoucauld, deux ecrivains souvent...
www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/corneille_pierre.jsp   (1449 words)

  
 Pierre de Marivaux Summary
The French novelist and dramatist Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (1688-1763) created a complex and eminently personal style, indicating the gradual transition in France from 17th-century neoclassic art to an introspective art of individual sentim...
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux(February 4, 1688- February 12, 1763), French novelist and dramatist, was born at Paris.
In the follwing essay, Connon explores differing uses of the devices of role reversal and disguise in L'Ile des esclaves, Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard, and L'Epreuve.
www.bookrags.com /Pierre_de_Marivaux   (247 words)

  
 Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de, 1688-1763, French dramatist and novelist.
He also wrote two unfinished novels of middle-class life, La Vie de Marianne (1731-41) and Le Paysan parvenu (1735-36), which are important early examples of the genre.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de" at HighBeam.
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 AllRefer.com - Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (French Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, French Literature, Biographies
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux[pyer´ kArlA´ du shANblE´ du mArEvO´] Pronunciation Key, 1688–1763, French dramatist and novelist.
He also wrote two unfinished novels of middle-class life, La Vie de Marianne (1731–41) and Le Paysan parvenu (1735–36), which are important early examples of the genre.
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 Club Marivaux - The Phoenix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Although the play was comic in tone and the action set on an island off the coast of Athens, far from France, the aristocracy must have cringed at a plot calling for a power reversal between the ruling class and its servants.
Marivaux imagined an island democracy established by runaway slaves, in which everyone was equal.
The Boston drag scene is one of the most articulated in the country.” To reinforce the connection between role playing and Marivaux’s work, they’ll fill one wall of the rehearsal studio at Zero Arrow Theatre with photos of drag performers in fantastic regalia.
www.thephoenix.com /PrinterFriendly.aspx?id=11783   (435 words)

  
 Musical Marivaux falls a bit short of 'Triumph' | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Somewhere between bright concept and bland execution, Marivaux's 1734 "The Triumph of Love" lost not only the first word of its title, but much of its charm when collaborators turned its princess-in-disguise story into a musical.
Marivaux's fine champagne often tastes like fizzless 7-Up.
Director Glaudini has her prance like a Barbie-bimbo through some of her tricking scenes, and that choice conflicts with Leonide's character – which is strong, independent, quick-witted and never cheap.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040626/news_1c26love.html   (655 words)

  
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Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux was born fifteen years after Molière's death and while much acclaimed and produced in his own country and, in fact, taught in French schools, his work seemed to hold little appeal for Americans.
Since James Magruder is one of the translators credited with polishing Marivaux's reputation, and also the writer of the book for Triumph of Love, we decided to have a sneak peek at the show by an interview conducted by fax.
JM: Marivaux has come into his own in the nineties not just because of translators, but because he writes small cast comedies that can be done on unit sets.
www.curtainup.com /tol-magr.html   (1549 words)

  
 wbur.org Arts - Theater - Booty Break
This might be intended by director Robert Woodruff and translator Gideon Lester, but the upshot is that the evening's tone skids uncertainly from campy to carnal, trite to would-be tragic.
In Marivaux's light social satire, two arrogant aristocrats and their servants are stranded on an island run by freed slaves.
Marivaux suggests that the play's experiment in social engineering could go horribly wrong.
www.wbur.org /arts/2006/58171_20060519.asp   (601 words)

  
 Bonnard Pierre - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947), French painter and graphic artist, one of the leaders of the later Impressionist movement.
As well as photojournalism, Cartier-Bresson was known for his photographic portraits.
Jean Renoir, Georges Braque, Pierre Bonnard, and Henri Matisse...
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 Aisle Say (Boston): Island of Slaves
While their joint production with the SITI company of his "La Dispute" had some amusement value, in part from its evocative setting, this distorted version of "L'Ile des Esclaves" is set in grungy theatrical locale, this time by David Zinn, using ideas left over from "Orpheus X," which ran last month.
This M.C. with a suggestive name is the one of the five original speaking characters in Marivaux's 11 scene dissertation on overbearing masters and long-suffering servants, and their mutual dependence.
But ramping up the stakes of "L'Ile des Esclaves" rather timid morality to the level of this outlandish effort, as in the ART's previous excursion with "La Dispute," results in another exercise of blatant theatricality, this time tinged with the theatre of cruelty accomplishing little more than titillation.
www.aislesay.com /MA-ISLAND.html   (746 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Marivaux,
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Marivaux," at HighBeam.
Triumph as French comedy is in vogue; The Almeida Theatre's production of The Triumph of Love continues British theatre's discovery of 18th century French playwright Marivaux.
Marivaux in the 'Hood: an interview with Abdellatif Kechiche.(Interview)
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Marivaux,   (354 words)

  
 Freshwater Seas--The Game of Love and Chance, by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Marivaux also wrote for the Italian Commedia del Arte troupes (the Comedie Italien) upon their return to France.
A particular attraction of Marivaux for me as a translator is his language.
Marivaux does not actually specify any locales; it is easy to stage the play in one location.
www.freshwaterseas.com /plays/golac/default.htm   (1895 words)

  
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century French playwright, Pierre de Marivaux, has been brought to the screen by Clare Peploe, wife of Bernardo Bertolucci, who has writing and producing credits on it.
Despite the presence of the radiant Mira Sorvino and the excellent Ben Kingsley and Fiona Shaw, I fear it is not quite successful.
The alternative would be to make those classic types from French comedy, the pedant and the mannish spinster, as ridiculous as they would have been to contemporaries, and there is never any question of doing that.
www.eppc.org /publications/pubID.1239/pub_detail.asp   (897 words)

  
 Folger Theatre 05-06 Season Ends with Marivaux's The Game of Love and Chance-Folger Shakespeare Library
Masquerade begets hilarity as a betrothed couple, meeting for the first time, switches places with their servants in order to discover the other's true character.  Press performances are Monday, April 10 at 7:30pm and Tuesday, April 11 at 7:30pm.
Marivaux gives us delicious language and wordplay along with characters that ―as in all great situation comedies―; are trying to find out a secret or give one away.
Pierre de Marivaux (1688-1763) is considered one of the most important French playwright of the 18th Century.
www.folger.edu /pr_preview.cfm?prid=180&is_archived=1   (846 words)

  
 Corneille Pierre - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Corneille Pierre - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Corneille, Pierre (1606-1684), French dramatist, whose plays are masterpieces of Classical French literature.
Pierre Corneille’s tragi-comedy Le Cid (1636/7) established the genre of French Classical tragedy.
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 Triumph of Love - smh.com.au
Unfortunately, you had to be there, for all this joie de vivre fails spectacularly to find its way into the film.
In his play, Marivaux was having fun at the expense of the rationalists who dominated 18th-century French thinking.
Marivaux's point is that when it comes to passion, rationalists can be as silly as anyone else.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/10/02/1033538671975.html   (624 words)

  
 Past Productions: Island of Slaves
Four shipwreck survivors - two servants, two masters - arrive on a strange island where the laws require they switch roles to learn a lesson in humanity.
Robert Woodruff's production sets Marivaux's savagely witty farce in Club Utopia, a once-glamorous cabaret where a team of scandalously lovely performers are about to throw the party of a lifetime for their visitors.
Many years ago, a group of fugitive slaves colonized a remote island and established a society of absolute equality.
www.amrep.org /slaves   (382 words)

  
 Biografia de Pierre de Marivaux
(Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux; París, 1688- id., 1763) Dramaturgo y novelista francés.
Es el renovador del género de la comedia y uno de los precursores de la Ilustración.
Se dio a conocer con la novela Los sorprendentes efectos de la simpatía (1712-1714) y con una versión paródica de la Ilíada (1717).
www.biografiasyvidas.com /biografia/m/marivaux.htm   (84 words)

  
 TIME.com: New Marianne -- Feb. 13, 1933 -- Page 2
3) One Juan de Mariana (1532-1624) in a Latin treatise defined circumstances in which it is proper to assassinate a tyrannical prince.
Following the assassination of spade-bearded Henri IV in 1610, Mariana's treatise was publicly burnt in Paris.
There was nothing notably republican about Marivaux's Marianne but the book was a best-seller in the years when the revolution was breeding.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,745158-2,00.html   (401 words)

  
 Pierre de Marivaux - Wikipedio
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux 4 di februaro 1688 en Paris til 12 di februaro 1763 en mem urbo esis autoro e teatristo.
Lua teatro konstruktas sorto di punto inter la tradicionala italiana e lua figuri (note Arlequin) e teatro plu literala, plu proxim di franciana ed angliana autori.
Marivaux esas estimita per multi kom la franciana mastro di maskilo e di mentio.
io.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pierre_de_Marivaux   (126 words)

  
 Marivaux (The Nation, March 8, 1883)
The article gives information on the book "Marivaux: His Life and His Works," by Gustave Larroumet.
The book focuses on works of French playwright Pierre de Marivaux.
The book says that Marivaux's plays still charm everyone because they place one between heaven and earth, in a world of delicate sentiment, of half-expressed emotions, where love is ideal and seems afraid of itself, where all human passion seems to be transformed-more volatile, more mysterious and transcendental.
www.thenation.com /archive/detail/14045939   (146 words)

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