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For plays in the French language, created by either citizens of France or francophone playwrights in other countries, please use Category:French-language plays Wikimedia Commons has media related to Plays from France .
French theatre in the 16th-century followed the same patterns of evolution as the other literary genres of the period. For the first decades of the century, public theatre remained largely tied to its long medieval heritage of mystery plays, morality plays, farces, and soties, although the miracle play was no longer in vogue.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pɔklɛ̃]; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (UK: / ˈ m ɒ l i ɛər, ˈ m oʊ l-/, US: / m oʊ l ˈ j ɛər, ˌ m oʊ l i ˈ ɛər /, [1] [2] [3] French:), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature.
This is a category for plays originally created in the French language, either by playwrights of France or countries. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 ...
(Top) 1 16th century. 2 17th century. 3 18th century. 4 19th century. 5 20th century. Toggle the table of contents. List of French playwrights. 2 languages.
Media in category "Plays by Molière" This category contains only the following file. B. File:Lully Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme - 01. Ouverture.ogg
Richard Wagner's Bayreuth Festival Theatre.. A wide range of movements existed in the theatrical culture of Europe and the United States in the 19th century. In the West, they include Romanticism, melodrama, the well-made plays of Scribe and Sardou, the farces of Feydeau, the problem plays of Naturalism and Realism, Wagner's operatic Gesamtkunstwerk, Gilbert and Sullivan's plays and operas ...
The history of the play is explored in Theresa Rebeck's 2018 Broadway play Bernhardt/Hamlet. The 2016 French play Edmond by Alexis Michalik is a fictionalized behind-the-scenes look at the composition and first performance of Cyrano de Bergerac. It was adapted as the 2018 film Edmond (distributed in English-speaking countries as Cyrano, My Love).