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Augustin Eugène Scribe ( French: [oɡystɛ̃ øʒɛn skʁib]; 24 December 1791 – 20 February 1861) was a French dramatist and librettist. He is known for writing "well-made plays" ("pièces bien faites"), a mainstay of popular theatre for over 100 years, and as the librettist of many of the most successful grand operas and opéras-comiques .
Eugène Scribe was a French dramatist whose works dominated the Parisian stage for more than 30 years. Scribe began his career as a playwright by resurrecting the vaudeville, an obsolete form of short satirical comedy that used rhymed and sung couplets and featured musical interludes.
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Eugène Scribe was one of the most prolific and popular French dramatists of the nineteenth century. Although his works are seldom produced today, Scribe is remembered for his mastery of the “well-made” play, which profoundly influenced the works of his contemporaries and successors.
Augustin Eugène Scribe (výslovnost: [oɡystɛ̃ øʒɛn skʁib]; 24. prosince 1791 Paříž – 20. února 1861 tamtéž) byl francouzský dramatik a operní libretista.
Eugène Scribe est un dramaturge et librettiste français, né le 24 décembre 1791 à Paris et mort à Paris 9e le 20 février 1861 1 . L’un des auteurs dramatiques les plus joués du XIXe siècle, en France comme dans le reste du monde 2, Eugène Scribe a été élu à l’ Académie française en 1834.
Born in 1791, Scribe began to write for the stage before he was twenty. Like many another dramatist, he was intended for the law, before his success on the stage justified his giving up the bar...
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The technical formula of the well-made play, developed around 1825 by the French playwright Eugène Scribe, called for complex and highly artificial plotting, a build-up of suspense, a climactic scene in which all problems are resolved, and a happy ending.
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