A Selection from the Comedies of MarivauxMarivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de
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A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux
Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de
Comedy plays
1717-1718. Five _Lettres contenant une aventure_, four _Lettres a
madame..., contenant des reflexions sur la populace, les bourgeois
et les marchands, les hommes et les femmes de qualite,--et les
beaux esprits_, in _le Mercure_ for August, September and
October, 1717, March and June, 1718.
1717. _Portrait de Climene, ode anacreontique_ in _le Mercure_ for
September,
_Lettre ecrite a l'auteur du Mercure_ (October), to object to the
agnomen of _Theophraste moderne_.
1719. _Pensees sur divers sujets: sur la clarte du discours, sur la
pensee sublime_, in _le Mercure_ for March.
1720. March 4. _L'Amour et la Verite_, comedy in three acts, in
collaboration with the Chevalier de Saint-Jory. T.I.
_Prologue_ inserted in _le Mercure_ for March.
October 19. _Annibal_, tragedy in five acts and in verse, T.F.
Four representations, one of which at the court.
October 20. _Arlequin poli par l'Amour_, comedy in one act. T.I.
Twelve representations.
1722. May 3. The first _Surprise de l'Amour_, comedy in three acts. T.I.
Sixteen representations.
_Compliment_, in prose and verse, to Mlle. Sylvia.
_Reflexions sur le_ Romulus _de la Motte_, pamphlet.
1722-1723. _Le Spectateur francais_, journal in twenty-five leaflets.
1723. April 6. _La Double Inconstance_, comedy in three acts. T.I.
Number of representations unknown: break in the registers of the
theatre, from March to June.
1724. February 5. _Le Prince travesti_, comedy in three acts. T.I.
Sixteen representations.
July 8. _La Fausse Suivante_, comedy in three acts. T.I. Thirteen
representations.
December 2. _Le Denouement imprevu_, comedy in one act. T.F. Six
representations.
1725. March 5. _L'Ile des Esclaves_, comedy in one act. T.I. Twenty-one
representations.
August 19. _L'Heritier de Village_, comedy in one act. T.I. Six
representations.
1727. September 11. _Les Petits Hommes, ou l'Ile de la Raison_, comedy
in three acts. T.F. Four representations. Received August 3.
December 31. The second _Surprise de l'Amour_, comedy in three
acts. T.F. Fourteen representations. Received January 30.
1728. April 22. _Le Triomphe de Plutus_, comedy in one act. T.I. Twelve
representations.
_L'Indigent philosophe ou l'Homme sans souci_, journal in seven
leaflets.
1729. April 18. _La Nouvelle Colonie, ou la Ligue des Femmes_, comedy
in three acts. T.I. Number of representations unknown. Reduced
later to one act, to be played in the _theatres de societe_;
published in this form in _le Mercure_ for December, 1750.
1730. January 23. _Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard_, comedy in three
acts. T.I. Fourteen representations.
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