Eugène Brieux (French: [bÊ jø]; 19 January 1858 â€" 6 December
1932), French dramatist, was born in Paris of poor parents.A one-act
play, Bernard Palissy, written in collaboration with M. Gaston
Salandri, was produced in 1879, but he had to wait eleven years before
he obtained another hearing, his Ménage d'artistes being produced by
André Antoine at the Théâtre Libre in 1890.[1]His plays are
essentially didactic, being aimed at some weakness or iniquity of the
social system. Blanchette (1892) pointed out the civic results of
education of girls of the working classes; Monsieur de Réboval (1892)
was directed against pharisaism; L'Engrenage (1894) against corruption
in politics; Les Bienfaiteurs (1896) against the frivolity of
fashionable charity; and L'Évasion (1896) satirized an indiscriminate
belief in the doctrine of heredity.[1]
1932), French dramatist, was born in Paris of poor parents.A one-act
play, Bernard Palissy, written in collaboration with M. Gaston
Salandri, was produced in 1879, but he had to wait eleven years before
he obtained another hearing, his Ménage d'artistes being produced by
André Antoine at the Théâtre Libre in 1890.[1]His plays are
essentially didactic, being aimed at some weakness or iniquity of the
social system. Blanchette (1892) pointed out the civic results of
education of girls of the working classes; Monsieur de Réboval (1892)
was directed against pharisaism; L'Engrenage (1894) against corruption
in politics; Les Bienfaiteurs (1896) against the frivolity of
fashionable charity; and L'Évasion (1896) satirized an indiscriminate
belief in the doctrine of heredity.[1]
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