The French novelist and dramatist Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (1688-1763) created a complex and eminently personal style, indicating the gradual transition in France from 17th-century neoclassic art to an introspective art of individual...

The works of 18th century French playwright Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux are beginning to be performed widely in the US after a long neglect. The works, which include 'The Triumph of Love', 'The Games of Love and Chance', and 'The Double Inconstancy',...

Pierre de Varga, businessman: born Tomessy, Hungary 1920; died Paris 30 June 1995. The name of Pierre de Varga became famous in France after Christmas Eve 1976. But Pierre de Varga was only one of the names by which this man was known....

In the essay below, Gossman delineates the relations of Marivaux's plays to the social and philosophical views of his day.

In the follwing essay, Connon explores differing uses of the devices of role reversal and disguise in L'Ile des esclaves, Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard, and L'Epreuve. The critic argues that these variations reflect Marivaux's movement away from the conventions of commedia dell'arte and towards a more realistic theater.

In the following essay, Caplan contends that the value of love in The Game of Love and Chance mirrors a growing belief that money has no intrinsic value but is a "pure convention, grounded in nothing more than public belief. "