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 illustr...
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 spec...
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 so...
The Cenci By Antonin Artaud The Ohio Theatre 66 Wooster Street 866-811-4111 Poor, crazy Antonin Artaud, creator of the Theater of Cruelty, remains misunderstood everywhere. By "cruelty," he meant that he wanted to rip theater from the jaws of...
Silvana Cenci, a sculptor who blasted her way onto the local art scene in the 1960s, died Sunday in her home in Gray, Maine. She was 74. Ms. Cenci worked primarily in stainless steel. She fashioned fountains and other works for many public...
Margaret Thatcher inaugurated the Imperial War Museum's Falklands exhibit Tuesday, 25 years after the then-British prime minister repelled Argentina's attempt to take the South Atlantic islands by force.The museum has gathered letters, sketches and memorabilia from survivors and witnesses to the conflict _ a 10-week...
