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 ill-fated musical Martin Guerre is to close. But four days later it is to reopen with a radically altered first act. Sir Cameron Mackintosh has taken the unusual step of relaunching a musical within months of its opening in an effort to...
This article discusses the efforts of writers Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg to rewrite the musical Martin Guerre. Despite two failed attempts, the two writers completed a third successful revision, including new music and a new focus on the social-religious backdrop of the musical....
Elena, a writer of self-help books at work on Here’s How: To Do EVERYTHING Correctly!, and Max, a Hollywood filmmaker whose single Oscar is decades behind him, are together in bed. They should be having sex, but under the shadow of the recent invasion of...
