The third and shortest section, "
Musset dans l'histoire litteraire," includes three articles which tell a similar story of the progress of the official view of
Musset in literary manuals, anthologies and textbooks.
When Marie suggests Alfred de
Musset as someone who might interest George, George replies that she knows Alfred de
Musset by reputation and dismisses him as an arrogant dandy.
For example, Dame
Musset's designation as "the Grand Red Cross" (6), obviously a reference to Spenser's knight, also invokes another more recent cultural register, the "wonder worker" women ambulance drivers of the First World War, who exchanged the restrictions of the domestic sphere for the thrill of the war effort and of the many other women with whom they worked.(6)
Musset's plays -- comedies of manners called comedies - proverbes, as many of the titles were taken from proverbs popular at the time -- also include fanciful comedies in the style of Shakespeare.
Seginger's collection makes several suggestive contributions that examine
Musset's noteworthy experiments with hybrid literary genres, and how he problematizes the notion of Truth.
Director Mary Zimmerman will helm the theater's first production of Shakespeare's "Pericles," followed by "Lorenzaccio" by Alfred de
Musset, newly translated and adapted by Washington playwright John Strand.
To misquote de
Musset, it imitates passion but leaves you feeling nothing.
It is highly intertextual, with numerous references to some canonical, some lesser-known, and a few made-up writers (Mallursset, a conflation of Mallarme and
Musset).
Examples of this stock character appear in works such as Mimi Pinson by Alfred de
Musset and Henri Murger's Scenes de la vie de boheme ("Scenes of Bohemian Life"), the story on which Giacomo Puccini's opera La Boheme is based.