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For plays in the French language, created by either citizens of France or francophone playwrights in other countries, please use Category:French-language plays Wikimedia Commons has media related to Plays from France .
French theatre in the 16th-century followed the same patterns of evolution as the other literary genres of the period. For the first decades of the century, public theatre remained largely tied to its long medieval heritage of mystery plays, morality plays, farces, and soties, although the miracle play was no longer in vogue.
This is a category for plays originally created in the French language, either by playwrights of France or countries. See also: Category:French plays Subcategories
Victor Hugo (1802–1885); Alexandre Dumas, père (1802–1870); Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870); Alfred de Musset (1810–1857); Théophile Gautier (1811–1872 ...
An audio cast recording of select scenes, with minor rewritings, was made at the studios Pelouze in Paris on 2 and 14 December 1933 for the French subsidiary of Columbia Records by the main cast (Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Raimu, Fernand Charpin, Paul Dullac, Henri Vilbert), except for M. Brun, who was played by Auguste Mouriès [], who had replaced Dullac as Escartefigue in the film ...
The Marriage of Figaro (French: La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro ("The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro")) is a comedy in five acts, written in 1778 by Pierre Beaumarchais. This play is the second in the Figaro trilogy, preceded by The Barber of Seville and followed by The Guilty Mother. [1]
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Le roi s'amuse (French pronunciation: [lə ʁwa samyz]; literally, The King Amuses Himself or The King Has Fun) is a French play in five acts written by Victor Hugo. First performed on 22 November 1832 but banned by the government after one evening, the play was used for Giuseppe Verdi's 1851 opera Rigoletto.