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Biography

Name: Alexandre Dumas
Birth Date: 1803
Death Date: December 5, 1870
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, playwright, novelist

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Biography of Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas (1803-1870), the prolific French author of plays, popular romances, and historical novels, wrote The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Alexandre Dumas is generally called Dumas père to distinguish him from his...
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Biography of Alexandre Dumas
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Despite their unflagging worldwide popularity, their perennial availability, and their innumerable cinematographic adaptations, the works of Alexandre Dumas père have been largely unappreciated by critics. There has been, for some time now, a...
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Biography of Alexandre Dumas
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The dramatic writings of Alexandre Dumas père, long absent from publishers' booklists and often granted little more than la portion congrue (an extremely small place) in critical assessments of his literary corpus, seem today to be experiencing...
 


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Alexandre Dumas, père ( 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870 ) is best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him the most widely read French author in the world. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Le comte de Monte Cristo (The...
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Alexandre Dumas, père Quotes
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy. Nothing succeeds like success. Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down. It is high...


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Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Jared Wenger
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In the following essay, Wenger analyzes the violent scenes in Dumas's dramatic works according to a tripartite model involving "Play," "Show," and "Struggle."
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Critical Essay by Adrian Kiernander
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In the following essay, Kiernander explores aspects of androgyny and sexual ambiguity in the plays Christine and Henri III et sa cour.
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Critical Essay by A. Owen Aldridge
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In the following essay, originally presented as a paper in 1972, Aldridge discusses the sources of Dumas's little-known drama Le Vampire (1851).
 


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