See also:CHARLES See also:MAURICE See also:DONNAY (1859– )
, See also:French dramatist, was See also:born of See also:middle-class parents in See also:Paris in 18J9
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He made his serious debut as a dramatist on the little See also:stage of the Chat Noir with See also:Phryne (1891), a See also:series of See also:Greek scenes
.
Lysistrata, a four-See also:act See also:comedy, was produced at the See also:Grand See also:Theatre in 1892 with Mme See also:Rejane in the See also:title See also:part
.
Later plays were Folle Entreprise (1894); See also:Pension de famille (1894); Complices (1895), in collaboration with M
.
Groselande; Amants (1895), produced at the See also:Renaissance theatre with Mme Jeanne Granier as Claudine Rozeray; La Douloureuse (1897); L'Affranchie (1898); Georgette Lemeunier (1898); Le Torrent (1899), at the Comedie Fran9aise; See also:Education de See also:prince (Igoo); La Clairiere (Igoo), and Oiseaux de passage (1904), in collaboration with L
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Descaves; La Bascule (Igor); L'Autre danger, at the Comedie Fran9aise (1902); Le Retour de See also:Jerusalem (1903); L' scalade (1904); and Paraftre (1906)
.
With Amants he won a See also:great success, and the See also:play was hailed by Jules See also:Lemaitre as the See also:Berenice of contemporary French See also:drama
.
Very advanced ideas on the relations between the sexes dominate the whole series of plays, and the witty See also:dialogue is written with an apparent carelessness that approximates very closely to the See also:language of every See also:day
.
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