Brieux

[ bree-œ ]

noun

1. Eu·gène [œ, -, zhen], 1858–1932, French playwright, journalist, and editor.

Example Sentences

We can no longer excuse ourselves on the plea of ignorance, for the grisly record may now be read in many medical and not a few popular treatises, and we find the theme entering even into the modern drama, as witness Brieux’s Damaged Goods.

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Soon he was up to his neck in the dramatists: Ibsen, Strindberg, Brieux, Sudermann, Galsworthy, Synge, Shaw.

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French writers like Brieux protest that American conceptions of French morals are based on the reading of French books whose authors have no standing in Paris, and whose very names are unknown to their countrymen.

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It is, however, the realism of Barrie rather than that of Brieux, and this at any rate is consoling.

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Often, in whole-hearted admiration, he gives himself to close imitation of Shakespeare, one of the great Greek dramatists, Ibsen, Shaw, or Brieux.

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