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Georges-Léon-Jules-Marie Feydeau (French: [ʒɔʁʒ fɛ.do]; 8 December 1862 – 5 June 1921) was a French playwright of the Belle Époque era, remembered for his farces, written between 1886 and 1914. Feydeau was born in Paris to middle-class parents and raised in an artistic and literary environment.
Jun 1, 2024 · Georges Feydeau was a French dramatist whose farces delighted Parisian audiences in the years immediately prior to World War I and are still regularly performed. Feydeau was the son of the novelist Ernest Feydeau, the author of the novel Fanny (1858).
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May 29, 2018 · Feydeau’s plays have been described as mathematical, geometric, and immaculate in construction; modern farces (including Don’t Dress for Dinner) are also built in this precise and particular...
A Flea in Her Ear (French: La Puce à l'oreille) is a play by Georges Feydeau written in 1907, at the height of the Belle Époque. The author called it a vaudeville, but in Anglophone countries, where it is the most popular of Feydeau's plays, it is usually described as a farce.
- Ruby Cohn, Georges Feydeau, Barnett Shaw
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Aug 5, 2020 · The story of Othello and the plot of Feydeau’s Puce à l’Oreille have a striking similarity. Desdemona’s lost handkerchief and Victor Emmanuel Chandebise’s missing braces both give rise to similar misunderstandings, undeserved jealousies and accumulating catastrophe.
Skillfully manipulating the conventions of vaudeville and farce, Georges Feydeau delighted Parisian audiences in the decades preceding World War I. Precisely staged, his plays are known for their wildly unlikely coincidences, mistaken identities, and misunderstandings.
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Nov 2, 2015 · Andrew Upton escalates the chaos in George Feydeau’s French farce with his adaptation of the seminal work A Flea in Her Ear. Feydeau was a promiscuous figurehead of the hedonistic...
