A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 327 pages of information about A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux.

A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 327 pages of information about A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux.

1740.  November 19. L’Epreuve, comedy in one act.  T.I.  Twenty
        representations.

1743.  February 4. Discours de reception to the French Academy.

1744.  August 24. Reflexions sur les progres de l’esprit humain, read
        before the French Academy; inserted in le Mercure for June,
        1755, under the title of Reflexions sur Thucydide.
        October 19. La Dispute, comedy in one act.  T.F.  One
        representation. 
        December 29. Reflexions sur les differentes sortes de gloire,
        read before the French Academy; printed in le Mercure for March,
        1751, under the title of Reflexions sur les hommes.

1746.  August 6. Le Prejuge vaincu, comedy in one act.  T.F.  Seven
        representations.

1748.  April 4. Reflexions sur l’esprit humain, in the form of a
        letter read before the French Academy.

1749.  August 24. Reflexions sur Corneille et sur Racine, read before
        the French Academy; inserted in le Mercure for April, 1755,
        under the title of Reflexions sur l’esprit humain a l’occasion de
        Corneille et de Racine

        September 24.  Continuation of the same reading.

1750.  August 25.  Continuation of the same reading. 
        December 27. Compliment addressed in the name of the French
        Academy to the Chancellor de Lamoignon; inserted in le Mercure
        for March, 1751.

1751.  January 8. Compliment addressed in the name of the French
        Academy to the garde des sceaux
        August 24. Reflexions sur les Romains et sur les anciens Perses,
        read before the French Academy; inserted in le Mercure for
        October, 1751.

1754. L’Education d’un prince, dialogue, in le Mercure, first
        volume for December.

1757. Les Acteurs de bonne foi, comedy in one act, published in le
        Conservateur
for November, 1757. 
        March 5.  Reading and reception at the Comedie-Francaise of
        Felicie, comedy in one act, not played; published in le
        Mercure
for March, 1757. 
        Date unknown. Lettre a une dame sur la perte d’un perroquet
        (in verse).

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.

[Footnote:  The first biographical and literary study upon Marivaux is that of the Abbe de la Porte, published four years before the former’s death in the Observateur litteraire of 1759, vol. 1, p. 73, etc., reprinted with additional details in the edition of the Oeuvres diverses de Marivaux, published in 1765 by Duchesne, and again in the edition of the Oeuvres completes, published in 1781

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