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| − | + | Written in 1854, the theme broadly based on Sandeau's novel ''Sacs et Parchemins'' (1850), this was a popular play about moral values and an arranged marriage based on commercial concerns, and the ultimate triumph of love. | |
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| + | First performed on 8 April, 1854 in the Théâtre du Gymnase-Dramatique in Paris, it would become Augier's most love work and a standard play for the Théâtre-Française. | ||
==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
Revision as of 05:48, 11 December 2017
Le Gendre de M. Poirier ("Monsieur Poirier's son-in-law") is a comedy in four acts by Émile Augier (1820–1889)[1] and Jules Sandeau (1811–1883)[2]
The play is sometimes wrongly ascribed to Augier alone.
Contents
The original text
Written in 1854, the theme broadly based on Sandeau's novel Sacs et Parchemins (1850), this was a popular play about moral values and an arranged marriage based on commercial concerns, and the ultimate triumph of love.
First performed on 8 April, 1854 in the Théâtre du Gymnase-Dramatique in Paris, it would become Augier's most love work and a standard play for the Théâtre-Française.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Afrikaans as Die Skoonseun van Mnr. Poirier by D.F. Malherbe (1881-1969).
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Augier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Sandeau
John Gassner and Edward Quinn. 2002. The Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama. Courier Corporation, p. 37[3]
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