Between 1838 and 1870, Gautier wrote 65 reviews of plays by Labiche. Before 1851, his compliments are somewhat vague, as if he had not immediately realized this author's importance. However, he is rarely harsh with him, ...

Labiche and Delcourt, in En avant les Chinois! and Le voyage  en Chine, use China as an excuse to make fun of typically French situations, and to give an exotic tinge to characters and situations that are very familiar to ...

L'article La théorie de « jeu de place » et les relations maîtres-domestiques dans le théâtre d'Eugène Labiche : le cas du Dossier de Rosafol vise à examiner le fonctionnement du renversement de rôles (le plus souvent entre ...

Labiche excels in the vaudeville, which is considered to be a "minor genre": consequently he has been allocated no more than a marginal place in the field of literary studies. In order to rehabilitate his work, I choose ...

In his articles of theatre critcism, written intermittently between 1847 and 1881, Théodore de Banville touched on Eugène Labiche's theatre thirty-seven times. With only a few exceptions, his opinion is generally favorable ...

This dissertation examines four of Shakespeare’s love-plays through the lens of the medieval tradition of theological romance in order to assess the playwright’s use of Augustinian psychology in his depiction of dramatic ...