Marivaux

[ ma-ree-voh ]

noun

1. Pierre Car·let de Cham·blain de [pye, r, k, a, r, -, le, d, uh, shah, n, -, blan, d, uh], 1688–1763, French dramatist and novelist.

Marivaux

/ marivo /

noun

1. MarivauxPierre Carlet de Chamblain de16881763MFrenchTHEATRE: dramatistWRITING: novelist Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de (pjɛr karlɛ də ʃɑ̃blɛ̃ də). 1688–1763, French dramatist and novelist, noted particularly for his comedies, such as Le jeu de l'amour et du hasard (1730) and La Vie de Marianne (1731–41)

Example Sentences

“Harlequin, Refined by Love” was an unlikely choice of play for a budding director: Written in 1720 by Pierre de Marivaux, a master of romantic comedy, it taps heavily into the commedia dell’arte, a genre few current French theatermakers have explored.

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Marivaux’s compact play is built around stock comic characters.

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The next year, she appeared in a Marivaux play directed by the influential Patrice Chéreau at his Nanterre theater.

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Since the language is heavily influenced by French, a lot of it is understandable without the subtitles, and the translation is full of images that make Marivaux feel fresh again.

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Hervé and Noémie are straight out of an 18th-century play by Marivaux, in which resourceful servants outwit their masters, and possibly replace them.

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