Le Demi-Monde (performed 1855), for example, dealt with the threat to the institution of marriage posed by prostitutes. The unhappy witness of the ruin brought on his father by illicit love affairs, Dumas fils-himself the child of one of these affairs-devoted his plays to sermons on the sanctity of the family and of marriage. (Giuseppe Verdi based his opera La Traviata, first performed in 1853, on this play.) Although Dumas père had written colourful historical plays and novels, Dumas fils specialized in drama set in the present.
His first success was a novel, La Dame aux camélias (1848), but he found his vocation when he adapted the story into a play, known in English as Camille, first performed in 1852. He was the son ( fils) of the dramatist and novelist Alexandre Dumas, called Dumas père.ĭumas fils possessed a good measure of his father’s literary fecundity, but the work of the two men could scarcely be more different. 27, 1895, Marly-le-Roi), French playwright and novelist, one of the founders of the “problem play”-that is, of the middle-class realistic drama treating some contemporary ill and offering suggestions for its remedy.
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