The French poet, dramatist, and fiction writer Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810-1857), a major romantic poet, is remembered for his Iyric poems, elegant comedies, and the powerful drama "Lorenzaccio," perhaps the finest French play of the 19th...

Although in this century the appeal of his poetry has finally been eclipsed by the charm of his theater, at the height of his popularity in his own time Alfred de Musset was known chiefly as a lyric poet of intensely personal verse. Although with time...

Most great dramatists who have played a major role in the development of their national dramatic traditions--William Shakespeare and Molière spring immediately to mind--were actively involved in the theater of their times, but Alfred de Musset...

The prose drama Andre del Sarto occupies a transitional position within Musset's dramatic oeuvre, crowning the oeuvres de jeunesse while announcing the masterpieces of 1833 and 1834. Situating the play within the larger romantic trends of the Restoration, the article focuses on the impulses...

PERCY SHELLEY'S THE CENCI (1819) and Alfred de Musset's Lorenzaccio (1834) have never been compared by specialists of the Romantic era. They both belong, nevertheless, to the concept of "Theater of Anxiety" of which Romantic literature presents powerful examples throughout Europe. (For lack...

In the following excerpt, Bishop presents a survey of Musset's poetic genres and styles, including his short lyric poetry, narrative and dramatic verse, and Les nuits cycle.

In the following essay, Maclean probes the masculine and feminine symbolism of Musset's drama Lorenzaccio in relation to its tragic theme of sexual defilement.

In the following essay, Gamble evaluates the narrative and dramatic structure of Musset's early verse works “Don Paez,” “Portia,” and “Les marrons du feu,” published collectively as Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie in 1830.