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Georges-Léon-Jules-Marie Feydeau (French: [ʒɔʁʒ fɛ.do]; 8 December 1862 – 5 June 1921) was a French playwright of the Belle Époque era, remembered for his farces, written between 1886 and 1914.
Jun 1, 2024 · Georges Feydeau was a French dramatist whose farces delighted Parisian audiences in the years immediately prior to World War I and are still regularly performed. Feydeau was the son of the novelist Ernest Feydeau, the author of the novel Fanny (1858).
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Georges Feydeau, né le 8 décembre 1862 à Paris et mort le 5 juin 1921 à Rueil-Malmaison, est un auteur dramatique, peintre et collectionneur d'œuvres d'art franco-polonais, connu pour ses nombreux vaudevilles.
A Flea in Her Ear (French: La Puce à l'oreille) is a play by Georges Feydeau written in 1907, at the height of the Belle Époque. The author called it a vaudeville, but in Anglophone countries, where it is the most popular of Feydeau's plays, it is usually described as a farce.
- Ruby Cohn, Georges Feydeau, Barnett Shaw
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May 29, 2018 · Feydeau was born in Paris in 1862, the son of a novelist who expected his child to become a writer. The younger Feydeau obliged, writing his first comic monologue at the age of 20....
Learn about Georges Feydeau (1862—1921), a prolific writer of farces with intricate plots and satirical humour. Find entries from various Oxford Reference sources, including his biography, works, and adaptations.
Aug 5, 2020 · Learn about the life and works of Georges Feydeau, the modern master of farce and the greatest French dramatist since Molière. Discover how his play A Flea in Her Ear anticipates the theater of the absurd and captures the absurdity of social institutions and communication.
