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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
8,162 words, approx. 27 pages
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...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Alexandre Dumas, père Information
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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
6,532 words, approx. 22 pages
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
6,056 words, approx. 20 pages
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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