A Game of Love and Chance

by Pierre de Marivaux, Stephen Mulrine (Translator)

Overview

The best known play by one of the most performed French playwrights

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781854598967
Publisher:	Theatre Communications Group
Publication date:	04/01/2008
Series:	Drama Classics , #80
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	556,909
Product dimensions:	4.00(w) x 6.20(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

He is considered one of the most important French playwrights of the 18th century, writing numerous comedies for the Comedie-Francaise and the Comedie-Italienne of Paris. His most important works are Le Triomphe de l'amour (The Triumph of Love), Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard (The Game of Love and Chance) and Les Fausses Confidences (False Admissions). He also published a number of essays and two important but unfinished novels, La Vie de Marianne and Le Paysan parvenu. Neil Bartlett is one of his generation's most respected and innovative theatre directors. His highly individual translations of French and German classical theatre, and charcteristically theatrical adaptations of Dickens, most of them originated while he was Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith in London, have been played around the world. His plays have premiered at the Royal Court, at the Manchester International Festival and at the National Theatre in London.