Pierre Marivaux – författare

Marivaux's light-hearted comedies of love and intrigue are enjoying a vigorous revival One of the most original of French eighteenth century dramatists, Marivaux wrote over thirty comedies of love and intrigue. This, the only major single-volume selection of Marivaux's plays in English, brings together five full-length and five shorter pieces in lively translations by John Bowen, Michael Sadler, John Walters, Donald Watson and Nicholas Wright.

Contains five works from the classical period of French theatre - "The Cid", "Phedra", "Tartuffe", "The Lottery of Love" and "The Marriage of Figaro".

Are you really surprised to discover that a woman might have a mind of her own?When Lélio thinks he can ditch and cash in on the rich woman he has promised to marry, in order to become the husband of an even wealthier 'girl from Paris', he enlists the help of his attractive new friend, the Chevalier.What he doesn't know is that the Chevalier is none other than this same 'girl from Paris' disguised as a man, and that her project is to publicly expose the depths of his sexual cynicism.A self-declared 'modern', Marivaux is a pioneer in the exploration of human feeling, asking in this play not only what do we hide from others? - but what are we hiding from ourselves?Martin Crimp's version of Pierre Marivaux's The False Servant received its premiere at the National Theatre, London, in 2004 and was revived at the Orange Tree Theatre, London, in June 2022. 'Marivaux's scepticism, irony and fascination with money and sex make him seem peculiarly modern.' Guardian'Thrills, chills, and belly laughs - this addictively adult comedy has got the lot.' Daily Telegraph

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceThe best known play by one of the most performed French playwrights - a sparkling 18th-century comedy of manners based on the simplest of plot devices, the exchanging places of master and valet, mistress and maidservant.This edition of Pierre Marivaux's play The Game of Love and Chance, in an English translation by Stephen Mulrine, is in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series. It includes an introduction by Stephen Mulrine.