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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 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.
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.
Overview. Eugène Scribe. (1791—1861) Quick Reference. (1791–1861), playwright. The leading French dramatist of the first half of the 19th century, he reacted to the overblown, romantic melodramas of his day by devising the “well‐made” play in ... From: Scribe, [Augustin] Eugene in The Oxford Companion to American Theatre »
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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.
