Musset: Five Plays

By Alfred de Musset

Book Overview

A collection of this major 19th century French playwright

The Moods of Marianne dramatises Coelio's courtship of Marianne through his go-between friend Octave; Fantasio is set in a fictional Munich and concerns the marriage of a young princess to Leopold of Belgium as a sacrifice for international peace following the Napoleonic Wars; Lorenzaccio is a vast fresco of fifteenth-century Florence, mixing freely a depiction of public life, court intrigue, intimate scenes and moments of deep personal introspection; Don't Play with Love concerns an arranged marriage gone awry; and Caprice is about the marriage of Mathilde to Monsieur du Chavigny and is already about to cheat on her.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041369240X
• ISBN13: 9780413692405
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: A&c Black 3pl
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 8.0"