Showing results for "Alexandre Dumas" in Comedy & Humour

Is it really a woman of your superiority who speaks of the proprieties of society? Are not women like you above all that? Was I to come delicately and hypocritically to offer your husband the sum he stood in need of? That is a course that would have been unworthy of him, of me, and of you. No, you know it well, the proprieties and dignity are nothing any longer, when passion or necessity predominates. Did your grandmother respect the dignity of her daughter when she gave her up to a prince? - Summary by From the PlayCast list:John de Hun: John BurlinsonNourvady: Kristin GjerløwGodler: K. ...

Dumas's play talks of American Naval Hero John Paul Jones's romantic entanglements and affairs of honor ashore in France. He later converted it to a novel. - Summary by ToddHWCast list:The Marquis D'Auray: Amy GramourThe Marchioness, his wife: SoniaCount Emanuel, their child: Tomas PeterMargaret, their child: Leanne YauBaron De Lectoure: NemoPaul Jones: ToddHWLouis Achard: Thomas A. CopelandMr. De La Jarry: Roger MelinMr. De Nozay: RecordingPersonNotary: Zames CurranLaffeuille, valet to the Marchioness: Son of the ExilesJasmin, valet to Emanuel: Eva DavisStage Directions: Sandra SchmitEdited ...

Armando Duval, un joven de la alta sociedad parisiense, se enamora perdidamente de Margarita Gautier, reconocida cortesana, quien corresponde sinceramente a este sentimiento. Olvidándose de esas circunstancias que les rodean, Armando y Margarita se entregan por completo a ese amor, sin importarles el escándalo que esto genere. (Summary by Phileas Fogg)

"The refined and fashionable audiences who... used to applaud the play of Mademoiselle de Belle Isle… would, in all probability, have objected to an English version of Dumas' clever play, upon the score of its immorality. It is not for me to determine whether the aristocratic audiences at the St James Theater did not understand what they heard, or whether the French language has a special charm for rendering inoffensive what plain English fails to recommend." - Summary by The TranslatorCast list:The Duke de Richelieu: Tomas PeterThe Duke D'Aumont: Craig FranklinThe Chevalier D'Auvray: ...