Quelles sont les caractéristiques du théâtre de Marivaux ?
La caractéristique de Marivaux va être de percevoir et d’analyser les balbutiements du sentiment amoureux et toutes les nuances de ces amours naissantes, comme il l’a dit lui-même : « J’ai guetté dans le cœur humain toutes les niches différentes où peut se cacher l’amour lorsqu’il craint de se montrer, et chacune de …
Quel est l’œuvre la plus connue de Marivaux ?
La Vie de Marianne
Sa principale œuvre romanesque est La Vie de Marianne dont la rédaction s’étend sur environ quinze ans ( 17 ).
When was Pierre de Marivaux born?
- Pierre Marivaux, in full Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, (born Febru, Paris, France—died Febru, Paris), French dramatist, novelist, and journalist whose comedies became, after those of Molière, the most frequently performed in French theatre.
What was the first play Marivaux wrote?
- Marivaux’s first plays were written for the Comédie-Française, among them the five-act verse tragedy Annibal (1727). But the Italian Theatre of Lelio, sponsored in Paris by the regent Philippe d’Orleans, attracted him far more.
What is Marivaux's human psychology?
- Marivaux’s human psychology is best revealed in his romance novels, both unfinished. La Vie de Marianne (1731–41), which preceded Samuel Richardson’s Pamela (1740), anticipates the novel of sensibility in its glorification of a woman’s feelings and intuition.
What is Marivaux's style of writing?
- Marivaux also made notable advances in realism; his servants are given real feelings, and the social milieu is depicted precisely. Among his 30-odd plays are the satires L’Île des esclaves (1725; “Isle of Slaves”) and L’Île de la raison (1727; “Isle of Reason”), which mock European society after the manner of Gulliver’s Travels.
