Eugène Labiche

An Italian Straw Hat (eBook, ePUB)

Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)
Übersetzer: Mcleish, Kenneth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A classic 19th-century French farce by Eugène Labiche. Fadinard is on the way to his wedding when his horse eats a straw hat hanging on a bush. The owner of the hat is a former girlfriend who insists that Fadinard buys her a new hat instantly. He sets off to find a replacement hat, followed by his fiancée and all their guests. The play develops into a delirious chase as Fadinard hunts the hat and the guests hunt Fadinard and comic misunderstandings litter every scene. Eugène Labiche's play An Italian Straw Hat was premiered at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris in 1851. This English version, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and introduced by Kenneth McLeish.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nick Hern Books
• Seitenzahl: 127
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780016436
• Artikelnr.: 44664865

Autorenporträt

Eugène Marin Labiche (5 May 1815 - 23 January 1888) was a French dramatist.

He was considered a successful but undistinguished vaudevillist until the success of his five-act farce, Un Chapeau de paille d'Italie (The Italian Straw Hat) in August 1851. For the next twenty-five years, he continued to write successful comedies and vaudevilles. "Of all the subjects," he said, "which offered themselves to me, I have selected the bourgeois. Essentially mediocre in his vices and in his virtues, he stands half-way between the hero and the scoundrel, between the saint and the profligate."

Labiche died in Paris and was buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre.