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Outer Space, Inner Rhythms: the concurrences of Jules Verne and Jacques Offenbach

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From: Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film
Date: 20030701
Author:Senelick, Laurence

Why are certain plays chosen for anthologies? Popularity in their own times is rarely the reason. John Fletcher, August von Kotzebue, Eugène Scribe, and Eduardo de Filippo are among the most performed playwrights in the history of European theatre. Try to find anything by them in a collection meant for classroom use. No space can be spared in textbooks for such influential works as Guarini's Il Pastor fido, Voltaire's Mahomet, or Schiller's Die Räuber. Aiken's dramatization of Uncle Tom's Cabin has just recently been admitted to the canon, primarily for sociological reasons, but not ...

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