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Alexandre Dumas, père.
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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 ...
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Towards the end of his ebullient and prolific career, Alexandre Dumas took pen in hand not to dash off one more spell-binding drama or history-filled epic, but to complain to the Emperor of rough hand...
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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...
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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 o...
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In the following essay, Bradford provides an overview of Dumas's career and works and defends him against critics who appraise his writing as mere entertainment.
Mr. Davidson, whose excellent v...
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In the following essay, Bell provides a brief examination of the influences behind Femande, Dumas's story of an upper-class prostitute.
To the reader who knows only the Dumas of the historical ...
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In the following essay, Winegarten assesses Dumas's career and writings from a late-twentieth-century perspective, taking into account the changing standards in the evaluation of the author�...
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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.
It is apt that the writings of Alexandre Dumas père, which...
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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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In the following essay, Bell briefly examines more than a dozen of Dumas's lesser-known novels and other works.
On July 24 this year the Mayor of Villers-Cotterets is unveiling a new statue1 to...
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In the following essay, Girard outlines the historical setting of The Forty-Five.
The Forty-five is a sequel to Marguerite de Valois and Chicot the Jester, especially to the latter, and it is difficul...
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In the following essay, Shaw offers a condensed overview of Dumas's life and works.
Alexandre Dumas was the son of a mulatto general, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, who served under Napoleon. His gran...
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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).
One of the least known of all the works of Alexa...
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In the following essay, Munro examines the publishing histories of two little-known works by Dumas, the historical romance Le comte de Moret and the drama Pietro Tasca.
This article is primarily conce...
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Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas
Critical Essay by Gamaliel Bradford
