• Turcaret (or Le Financier) is a comedy by Alain-René Lesage, first produced on 14 February 1709 at the Comédie-Française in Paris. It is considered one...
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    novel The Devil upon Two Sticks (1707, Le Diable boiteux), his comedy Turcaret (1709), and his picaresque novel Gil Blas (1715–1735). Claude Lesage, the...
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    for which she was nominated for a Molière Award. She also appeared in Turcaret (2002). In 2002, Green had her film debut, when director Bernardo Bertolucci...
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    Don Juan Comes Back From the War Ödön von Horváth Richard Brunel 2002 Turcaret Alain-René Lesage Gérard Desarthe Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon Eugène...
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  • established by Richard Steele; The New Atalantis by Delarivier Manley; Turcaret by Alain-René Lesage 1710 in literature – Colley Cibber becomes manager...
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  • literature, for example by playwright Alain-René Lesage in his 1709 comedy Turcaret, which was inspired by financier Paul Poisson de Bourvallais. In 1726,...
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    Schemer The Mandrake On ne badine pas avec l'amour Le Déluge Creditors Turcaret Phèdre~Epilogue (2011) La Tragédie du roi Christophe (1997) Aberrations...
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  • and the last great "comedy" of Louis XIV's reign, Alain-René Lesage's "Turcaret", is an immensely dark play in which almost no character shows redeeming...
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    fortune and a hard-earned honest life. Gil Blas is related to Lesage's play Turcaret (1709). In both works, Lesage uses witty valets in the service of thieving...
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  • August Strindberg, mise en scène Jean Vilar, Palais de Chaillot 1960 : Turcaret by Alain-René Lesage, mise en scène Jean Vilar, Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux...
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  • French Plays, including Robert the Devil; The Rival of His Master and Turcaret by Alain-René Lesage; and The False Confessions by Pierre de Marivaux;...
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    comedies of manners, such as Regnard's Le Légataire universel, and Lesage's Turcaret in 1709. But the greatest author of French comedies in the 18th century...
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  • Mère coquette, Bernadille in la Femme juge et partie as well as roles in Turcaret. (in French) Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des littératures...
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    and the last great "comedy" of Louis XIV's reign (Alain-René Lesage's Turcaret) is a dark play in which almost no character exhibits redeeming traits...
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    1909: Charles VII chez ses grands vassaux (Alexandre Dumas père) 1910: Turcaret (Lesage) 1910: La Maison (Arnoux) 1910: Petite femme (Reynold) 1910: Phèdre...
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    (1668–1747), the author of novel The Devil upon Two Sticks (1707), his comedy Turcaret (1709) and his picaresque novel Gil Blas, (1715–1735). Inhabitants of Sarzeau...
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  • Charles Johnson – Love and Liberty (not performed) Alain-René Lesage – Turcaret Mary Pix – The Adventures in Madrid John Reynolds – Death's Vision Represented...
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    Clermont 1973-1974 Citron automatique Francis Perrin Francis Perrin 1975 Turcaret Alain-René Lesage Serge Peyrat Tutti-Frutti Francis Perrin Francis Perrin...
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    p. 72. ISBN 9780226348018. OCLC 45629735. Le Sage, Alain René (2013). Turcaret. A. Hamilton Thompson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-62007-0...
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  • (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1917) (editor) Alain René Le Sage, Turcaret: Comédie (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1918) (editor) François-René...
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    Skovbyggeren as Pauline 1782 Soliman den anden as Roxelane, fransk slavinde 1782 Turcaret as Baronessen, ung enke 1783 Beverley as Henriette, Beverleys søster 1783...
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    Athalie, but she did occasionally perform comic parts, such as Madame Turcaret. In 1789, she married her colleague Joseph Sauze Desguillons, and thus...
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    his works. But Boursault's take on the subject serves as a precursor to Turcaret (1709) by Alain-René Lesage. Lettres de respect, d'obligation et d'amour...
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