Inhaltsangabe
Lovers, The Free Woman, They: Three Plays is a collection of three plays written by French playwright Maurice Donnay and originally published in 1915. The first play, Lovers, is a romantic drama set in the French countryside, exploring the themes of love, passion, and fidelity. The second play, The Free Woman, is a feminist drama that challenges traditional gender roles and societal expectations of women. The play follows the story of a woman who refuses to conform to the norms of her time and instead chooses to live life on her own terms. The third play, They, is a psychological drama that delves into the complexities of human relationships and the blurred lines between love and obsession. It tells the story of a man who becomes obsessed with a woman he cannot have, leading to tragic consequences. Overall, Lovers, The Free Woman, They: Three Plays offers a diverse range of themes and perspectives, showcasing Donnay’s skillful writing and his ability to capture the complexities of human emotions and relationships.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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Life to Maurice Donnay is a series of love stories. He once said, A play is a love story, and since that story is laid in various places, we are led to believe that plays differ. And Donnay splays differ among themselves only in the degree to and manner in which they are treated. Sex is the motive power which actuates his characters: it is the protagonist of all his work. It might almost be urged that free love if by free we mean independent of the conventions of marriage and society is the subject of his stories. He is very little concerned with morality, and the rare occasions upon which he ventures to treat it are to be found not in the plays, but in interviews and prefaces. In his Dedication to Moliere (in Le Menage de Moliere) he says: The conjugal accident no longer amuses us: it appears to us as a social necessity, yes, a shameful but logical consequence of marriage as it is most frequently practised in the society of our day. In his best plays, like Lovers and The Free Woman, this dramatist is content merely to paint certain sections of life as he sees them, to analyze the thoughts and sensations of his lovers, and to allow the audience to draw what conclusions it will. Only by implication is It possible to read into these plays any moral attitude: Donnay is far too great an artist to attach a moral to his work, or attempt to develop one out of the action or the interplay of character upon character.
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