Henry Becque
Henry François Becque (9 April 1837 – 12 May 1899),
Life
In 1867, he wrote, in imitation of
His other works include Querelles littéraires (1890), and Souvenirs d'un auteur dramatique (1895), consisting chiefly of reprinted articles in which he does not spare his opponents. His Théâtre complet (3 vols., 1899) includes L'Enfant prodigue (Vaudeville Theatre, 6 November 1868); Michel Pauper (Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 17 June 1870); L'Enlèvement (Vaudeville, 18 November 1871); La Navette (Gymnase, 15 November 1878); Les Honnêtes Femmes (Gymnase, 1 January 1880); Les Corbeaux (Comédie-Française, 14 September 1882); and La Parisienne (Théâtre de la Renaissance, 7 February 1885).[4]
Reputation
English novelist Arnold Bennett wrote in 1910 that Henri Becque was one of the great dramatists of the 19th century, but that "no first-class modern French author is more perfectly unknown and uncared-for in England than Henri Becque."[5]
Notes and references
- ^ Barbara T. Cooper, French dramatists, 1789-1914, Gale Research, 1998, p. 12.
- ^ McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, McGraw-Hill, 1972, p. 160; Frank Northen Magill, Critical Survey of Drama: Authors, Salem Press, 1986, p. 167.
- Neuilly as his place of birth: Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia Of Literature, Merriam-Webster, 1995, p. 118.
- ^ a b Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Bennett, Arnold. "Books and Persons". Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
Attribution:
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Becque, Henry François". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 611.
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