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HENRY FRANCOIS BECQUE (1837-1899)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 611 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:FRANCOIS See also:BECQUE (1837-1899)  , See also:French dramatist, was See also:born on the 9th of See also:April 1837 in See also:Paris . He wrote the See also:book of an See also:opera Sardanapale in See also:imitation of See also:Lord See also:Byron for the See also:music of M . Victorin See also:Joncieres in 1867, but his first important See also:work, See also:Michel Pauper, appeared in 1870 . The importance of this sombre See also:drama was first realized when it was revived at the Odeon in 1886 . See also:Les Corbeaux (1882) established See also:Becque's position as an innovator, and in 1885 he produced his most successfulplay, La Parisienne . Becque produced little during the last years of his See also:life, but his disciples carried on the tradition he had created . He died in May 1899 . See his Querelles litteraires (1890), and Souvenirs d'un auteur dramatique (1895), consisting chiefly of reprinted articles in which he does not spare his opponents . His See also:Theatre complet (3 vols., 1899) includes L'Enfant prodigue (See also:Vaudeville Theatre, 6th of Nov . 1868) ; Michel Pauper (Theatre de la See also:Porte-See also:Saint-See also:Martin, 17th of See also:June 187o) ; L'Enlevement (Vaudeville, 18th of Nov . 1871) ; La Navette (Gymnase, 15th of Nov . 1878) ; Les Honnetes Femmes (Gymnase, 1st of See also:Jan .

188o) ; Les Corbeaux (Comedic Frangaise, 14th of See also:

Sept . 1882) ; La Parisienne (Theatre de la See also:Renaissance, 7th of Feb . 1885) .

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