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Eugène Brieux. Three Plays by Brieux
Three Plays by Brieux
Table of Contents
Preface. By Bernard Shaw
From Molière to Brieux
How the XIX century found itself out
Jack the Ripper
Rise of the Scientific Spirit
Zolaism as a Superstition
The Passing of the Tragic Catastrophe and the Happy Ending
The Difference between Brieux and Molière or Shakespear
Brieux and the Boulevard
The Pedantry of Paris
How to Write a Popular Play
Why the Critics are always Wrong
The Interpreter of Life
How the Great Dramatists torture the Public
Brieux’s Conquest of London
Parisian Stupidity
Brieux and the English Theatre
The Censorship in France and England
Brieux and the English Censorship
Taboo
The Attitude of the People to the Literary Arts
The Dread of the Original Thinker
The Justification of Conventionality
Why Les Hannetons was Censored
Misadventure of a Frenchman in Westminster Abbey
Marriage and Malthus
Brieux and the Respectable Married Man
Brieux shews the Other Side
The Most Unmentionable of All Subjects
Why the Unmentionable Must be Mentioned on the Stage
Brieux and Voltaire
As Good Fish in the Sea
Maternity
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
The Three Daughters. of M. Dupont
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
Damaged Goods
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
Maternity
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
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Eugène Brieux
With a Preface by Bernard Shaw
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BRIGNAC. You trust to me. You don’t understand anything about it. You didn’t even know how a Council of Revision was made up,—you, the wife of a sous-préfet. And yet every year we give them a dinner. And we’ve been married four years.
LUCIE [gently and pleasantly] Now think for a minute. We’ve been married four years, that’s true. But this time three years was just after Edmée was born: two years ago I was expecting little Louise; and last year after weaning her I was ill. Remember too that if I had nursed the last one myself I could not be at dinner tonight, as she is only two months old.
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