This volume contains four of Pixérécourt’s most important melodramas: The Ruins of Babylon, or Jafar and Zaida; The Dog of Montargis, or The Forest of Bondy; Christopher Columbus, or the Discovery of the New World; and Alice, or The Scottish Gravediggers. Also included is Charles Nodier ’s introduction to the 1843 Collected Edition of Pixérécourt’s plays and two theoretical essays by the playwright, “Melodrama,” and “Final Reflections on Melodrama.”

Pixérécourt: Four Melodramas

Literature & Fiction

Pixérécourt, René-Charles Guilbert de

Dramas & Plays

Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publ.

This volume presents a critical edition of three melodramas (La Citerne, Marguerite d'Anjou, and Les Ruines de Babylone) along with their original incidental music. The critical material supplementing the text provides a backstage look at the production of Pixerecourtian melodramas in the very constrictive political context of 1809-1810.

Mélodrames: 1809-1810 (Bibliotheque Du Theatre Francais) (French Edition)

History & Criticism

Classiques Garnier

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