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L’Illusion comique
€6,00di Pierre Corneille
Après avoir passé dix ans à chercher son fils Clindor qu’il a chassé, Pridamant fait appel à un magicien pour le retrouver. Grâce à un sortilège, il assiste, comme le spectateur, aux aventures de Clindor, de son amante Isabelle et de son maître Matamore. Mais ces péripéties sont-elles bien réelles ? Dans L’Illusion comique (1636), Corneille mélange avec virtuosité comédie, tragédie et romanesque en créant l’exemple le plus connu de théâtre dans le théâtre. Mirage aux allures réalistes et vérité aux reflets illusoires s’entremêlent, dans une pièce qui nous rappelle que la scène est “l’écran où se joue le grand théâtre du monde”.
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Lorenzaccio
€5,00di Alfred de Musset
Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) was a French dramatist and poet, regarded as one of the first Romantic writers. He was also a prolific novelist of the romantic period and wrote some of the most memorable literary masterpieces of all times. Much influenced by Shakespeare and Schiller, Alfred de Musset wrote the first modern dramas in the French language. His early poems and plays were much appreciated in the French society earning him the reputation of being a dandy. In 1845 he was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Musset was elected to the French Academy in 1852. Nowadays Musset’s popularity is second only to Racine and Moliere. “My glass is not big, but I drink out of my own glass,” he once stated self-consciously. Musset had a profound grasp of the psychology of love and his portraits of women were multidimensional.
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