茶花女英語介紹
Ⅰ 小紅帽 茶花女 小公主 小王子 等小說 還有一個自己隨便再找一篇 的英語讀後感80字至100左右
小紅帽： I bought this book a few years ago for my daughter for Halloween. She immediately loved it and I had to buy another for her to donate to her school as her birthday book (every child donates a book on their birthday and their picture and year is placed in the inside cover - wonderful tradition). This is a very cute story with beautiful artwork about a little witch who wants a pet. Because she is a witch, she wants the creepiest pet possible. She brings home different pets from the pet store, but returns them as they aren't exactly what she wants. Finally, a cute kitten shows up on her doorstep, and despite her adorable looks, the kitten is exactly what she was looking for in a pet (explores the attic with her, watches creepy movies with her and listens to her secrets). The moral of the story - appearances don't matter as much as your character
小公主： What a brave and kind girl! She is a rich family's princess,her father really love Alice ago,However, once her father had something wrong in the accident,so the teacher was cruelty to Alice,but I find that the Alice is very brave and outgoing,she never said someting scared or something bad,she just continue and grow,soon,a mircle was that Alice get a friend of her father,so she could get a good life and start a happy life again,yeah, Alice is a good princess,
As a little princess, she didn't hate nobody even her teacher a terrible miss.
At the moment, I just want to say that something you should insist,a good sentence,All road lead to the Rome,and Everything is possible, she can be a severnt from a princess,but after she insist,so she become a princess again,
I like the girl-Alice Every girl can be a princess, even though she lives in a low attic, even though she is in shabby clothes, even though she is not beautiful, nevertheless, she can be a real princess at heart.
茶花女：
Those Beautiful Flowers
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I read the Chinese version of 「Camille」 a few years ago. At that time I was deeply moved by the main character Marguerite Gautier. 「Camille」 or 「The Lady of the Camellias」 by Alexandre Dumas, fils, is the story of Marguerite Gautier, a young courtesan, or kept woman, in Paris in the mid 1800's, and how she falls in love with a young man, Armand Duval, and then tries to escape from her questionable past. Unfortunately, it comes back to haunt her and she ends up returning to that life and dies painfully and alone, but with the knowledge that she was a noble woman at heart. When I first began to read the book, I did not care for Marguerite or her attitude or lifestyle, but as I got further into the narrative, I realized that her saucy attitude was a front to cover the lonely woman that she really was. She felt used, abused and unloved, until the gentle Armand Duval came into her life and showed her that he loved her as a person and not for what she could do for him. It must have taken great courage for Marguerite to leave the life she had lived for so long, knowing all along that it was probably too good to be true and would not last indefinitely. And it also showed that Marguerite really loved Armand Duval for she could even change herself for him.
However, happiness didn』t last for long. When M. Duval, Armand's father, came to her, pleading for her to leave Armand to save both Armand's reputation and that of his younger innocent sister, Marguerite saw a way to become pure of heart, if not in body. She felt that it was her ty, because she loved Armand so much, to do this even though it meant giving up her own happiness and hurting Armand temporarily. She reluctantly returned to her former life, knowing that some day Armand would forgive her. Sadly, she died in debt and basically alone, except for her one female friend, Julie Duprat, who helped her ring her illness. She had her journal sent to Armand after her death, explaining why she had made the choices she had. I think Dumas's last few lines about Marguerite being the exception, not the rule were quite true, and I also agreed with his view that while her lifestyle could not be condoned, we as a society assume that all of these type of women are cold and heartless, while this may not always be the case. A person can make the wrong choices in life when they are young, and try to redeem themselves, but sometimes past situations prevent them from changing their lives, even though they desperately wish to do so. This applies to both men and women in many different types of circumstances: involvement in crime; drug or alcohol abuse; gambling; prostitution; financial problems; poor marriage choices; etc. And this is the fact, which exists in the whole society.
As far as the other characters in the book, I think Marguerite was right in saying that no one truly cared about her, but only wanted something from her, the only exceptions being Armand and Julie Duprat. Of course, the Comte de G. and Comte de N. wanted her body and appearance. The Duke needed to 「wake up and smell the coffee」 and realize that she could never replace his dead daughter. If he truly cared, he could have helped her leave her lifestyle without 「keeping」 her himself. And lastly, Prudence was a blood-sucking leech who used Marguerite almost worse than the men. I also think she was jealous of the fact that Marguerite had so much more courage than herself and someone truly loved her.
Last morning, when tiding my bookshelf, I took this book out of the shelf, and a dried flower flew away from the book. It was pale blue, very transparent, with thin fine veins. a dried flower flew away from the book. It was pale blue, very transparent, with thin fine veins. I held it against the morning light and blew on it. The soft breeze carried it away. Camille is just like the camellia, she could never escape from the destiny of withering. But it wasn』t her fault; it』s because of the evil of Capitalism and the hideousness of that society.
Suddenly, I remembered a saying: 「Women are like the flowers」. Those pretty women are like those beautiful flowers; their delicate beauty makes people feel they are the miracle of life. However, even the God envies their beauty. It seems that beautiful women always have tragic endings. As we are normal persons, even we can see the hideousness of humanity that results in their fate of withering, we can at most ask quietly in our hearts: Where have those beautiful flowers gone? Where have they gone?
小王子
After reading <Little Price>,I was moved by the true love and friendship. In that little world, everything is full of love and beauty.Like the rose, she loved the Little Prince, she was beatific,because she could be cared. In the reality, we are the same. We love our parents,and they just like the Little Prince who take care of us.Thank you,my dear parents,I'll love you forever.
As for friends,I can never forget the fox.Her sincere and help made the Little Prince hopeful and glad. Facing all my friends,I'll be the fox,I'll bring hope and happy to all the people beside me.I'll never let them disappointed.
Thank you,Little Prince. You have taught me a lot. I'll learn from you.Maybe you're now in a pure and happy place,believe me, all the roses will bloom,only for you
好歹給我點辛苦分！
Ⅱ 茶花女作者介紹(英語+中文)
亞歷山大·小仲馬 Alexandre Dumas fils （1824～1895）是法國著名小說家大仲馬當公務員時與一女裁縫所生的私生子。受父親影響，他也熱愛文學創作，並且和他父親一樣勤奮，成為法國戲劇由浪漫主義向現實主義過渡期間的重要作家。大仲馬很為有這樣的兒子而自豪。傳說曾經有人問大仲馬一生中最得意的作品是哪部，大仲馬自豪地回答：小仲馬。和大仲馬側重表現歷史，專寫歷史劇和歷史小說不同，小仲馬則專寫現代劇。小仲馬幼年飽嘗家庭不幸帶來的種種辛酸和痛苦，親眼看到大仲馬一生受累於種種桃色事件，並因此落得晚景貧困凄涼。所以小仲馬在他的作品中大力宣揚家庭及婚姻的神聖，對資產階級社會風氣、家庭生活和倫理道德做了比較細致的描繪和揭露，抨擊了娼妓社會對家庭婚姻的威脅，歌頌了純潔高尚的愛情，成為社會問題劇的創始人之一。
小仲馬的代表作是《茶花女》，開始為小說，後被改編為話劇，它贊頌了瑪格莉特出自淤泥而不染的高尚情操。話劇一上演，立即轟動了整個巴黎。小仲馬從此後專門從事話劇創作，其他比較有名的作品有《私生子》、《金錢問題》、《放盪的父親》《歐勃雷夫人的見解》《半上流社會》《阿爾豐斯先生》《福朗西雍》等。大都以婦女、婚姻、家庭為題材，真實地反映出社會生活的一個側面。他的作品富有生活氣息，感情真切自然，語言通俗流暢。
Dumas was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay (1794-1868), a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas. During 1831 his father legally recognized him and ensured that the young Dumas received the best ecation possible at the Institution Goubaux and the Collège Bourbon. At that time, the law allowed the elder Dumas to take the child away from his mother. Her agony inspired Dumas fils to write about tragic female characters. In almost all of his writings, he emphasized the moral purpose of literature and in his play The Illegitimate Son (1858) he espoused the belief that if a man fathers an illegitimate child then he has an obligation to legitimize the child and marry the woman.
Dumas' paternal great-grandparents were a French nobleman and a Haitian woman. In boarding schools, Dumas fils was constantly taunted by his classmates. These issues all profoundly influenced his thoughts, behaviour, and writing.
During 1844 Dumas moved to Saint-Germain-en-Laye to live with his father. There, he met Marie Duplessis, a young courtesan who would be the inspiration for his romantic novel The Lady of the Camellias. Adapted into a play, it was titled in English (especially in the United States) as Camille and is the basis for Verdi's 1853 opera, La Traviata. Although he admitted that he had done the adaptation because he needed the money, he had a great success with the play. Thus began the career of Dumas fils as a dramatist, which was not only more renowned than that of his father ring his lifetime but also dominated the serious French stage for most of the second half of the 19th century. After this, he virtually abandoned writing novels (though his semi-autobiographical L'Affaire Clemenceau (1867) achieved some success).
Tomb of Dumas fils in Montmartre Cemetery.On 31 December 1864, Dumas married Nadjeschda von Knorring (1826 – April 1895), daughter of Johan Reinhold von Knorring and wife, and widow of Alexander, Prince Naryschkine, whom he married at Moscow and with whom he had two daughters: Marie-Alexandrine-Henriette Dumas, born 20 November 1860, who married Maurice Lippmann and was the mother of Serge Napoléon Lippmann (1886–1975) and Auguste Alexandre Lippmann (1881–1960); and Jeanine Dumas (3 May 1867–), who married Ernest d' Hauterive (1864–1957), son of George Lecourt d' Hauterive and wife (married in 1861) Léontine de Leusse. After Naryschkine's death, he married in June 1895 Henriette Régnier de La Brière (1851–1934), without issue.
During 1874, he was admitted to the Académie française and in 1894 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.
Alexandre Dumas fils died at Marly-le-Roi, Yvelines, on November 27, 1895 and was interred in the Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris. His grave is, perhaps coincidentally, only some 100 metres away from that of Marie Duplessis.
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The Lady of the Camellias (Camille) (1848)
L'affaire Clemenceau (The Clemenceau Case) (1867)
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Verdi's La Traviata based on the novel The Lady of the Camellias
[edit] Plays
Atala (1848)
The Lady of the Camellias (1852)
Diane de Lys (1853)
Le Bijou de la reine (1855)
Le Demi-monde (1855)
La Question d'argent (1857)
Le Fils naturel (The Illegitimate Son) (1858)
Un Père prodigue (1859)
Un Mariage dans un chapeau (1859) coll. Vivier
L'Ami des femmes (1864)
Le Supplice d'une femme (1865) coll. Emile de Girardin
Heloise Paranquet (1866) coll. Durentin
Les Idees de Madame Aubray (1867)
Le Filleul de Pompignac (1869) coll. Francois
Une Visite de noces (1871)
La Princesse Georges (1871)
La Femme de Claude (1873)
Monsieur Alphonse (1873)
L'étrangère (1876)
Les Danicheff (1876) coll. de Corvin
La Comtesse Romani (1876) coll. Gustave Fould
La Princesse de Bagdad (1881)
Denise (1885)
Francillon (1887)
La Route de Thebes (unfinished)
英語和中文內容出自不同地方，所以不能完全一致，請參考
Ⅲ 關於歌劇《茶花女》和《弄臣》幾個問題
一般詠嘆調的名字抄就是襲唱詞第一句。《茶花女》中還有第一幕茶花女的詠嘆調，第二幕茶花女與阿芒父親的二重唱、阿芒父親對兒子唱的詠嘆調；宴會一場的合唱；結尾茶花女獨自一人在病床上的詠嘆調，與阿芒的二重唱。
《弄臣》中第一幕公爵的獨唱，第二幕吉爾達與利哥萊托的二重唱，吉爾達的獨唱，第三幕公爵的獨唱，吉爾達與利哥萊托的二重唱，結尾吉爾達與利哥萊托的二重唱。
Ⅳ 法國版《茶花女》電影 女主角名字
1936年的
中文片名
茶花女
外文片名
Camille
影片類型
愛情 / 劇情
片長
109分鍾
國家/地區
美國
對白語言
英語
色彩
黑白
混音
單聲道
級別
Australia:PG Argentina:13 Finland:K-16 Sweden:15 USA:Approved
版權所有
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp,; 25 December 1936; LP6845
製作日期
1936年11月7日 -
1936年7月28日 - 1936年10月27日
攝制格式
35 mm
洗印格式
35 mm
膠片長度
(12 reels)
2〉演職員表
導演 Director
喬治·丘克 George Cukor
編劇 Writer
小仲馬 Alexandre Dumas fils .....(novel and play La Dame aux camélias) (as Alexandre Dumas Fils)
佐伊·艾金斯 Zoe Akins .....(screenplay) &
Frances Marion .....(screenplay) and
James Hilton .....(screenplay)
演員 Actor
葛麗泰·嘉寶 Greta Garbo .....Marguerite Gautier
羅伯特·泰勒 Robert Taylor .....Armand Duval
萊昂納爾·巴里摩爾 Lionel Barrymore .....Monsieur Duval
Elizabeth Allan .....Nichette, the Bride
Jessie Ralph .....Nanine, Marguerite's Maid
Henry Daniell .....Baron de Varville
Lenore Ulric .....Olympe
Laura Hope Crews .....Prudence Duvernoy
Rex O'Malley .....Gaston
製作人 Proced by
David Lewis .....associate procer
Bernard H. Hyman .....procer (uncredited)
Irving Thalberg .....procer (uncredited)
3〉發行公司
Loew's Inc. [美國] ..... (1936) (USA) (theatrical)
米高梅 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) [美國] ..... (1936) (USA) (theatrical)
米高梅聯美家庭娛樂 MGM/UA Home Entertainment [美國] ..... (198?) (USA) (VHS)
Reserva Especial [巴西] ..... (19??) (Brazil) (VHS)
Versátil Home Vídeo [巴西] ..... (19??) (Brazil) (VHS)
華納家庭視頻公司 Warner Home Video [美國] ..... (2005) (USA) (DVD)
Warner Home Vídeo [巴西] ..... (2005) (Brazil) (DVD)
4〉上映日期
美國 USA
1936年12月12日 ..... (New York City, New York)
奧地利 Austria
1937年
芬蘭 Finland
1937年2月28日
1995年的
中文片名
茶花女
外文片名
Dama kameliowa
更多外文片名
Dama de las camelias, La .....Spain
影片類型
劇情
片長
Spain:90 min
國家/地區
波蘭
對白語言
波蘭語
色彩
彩色
2〉演職員表
導演 Director
澤基·安特科扎克 Jerzy Antczak
編劇 Writer
小仲馬 Alexandre Dumas fils .....(novel and play "La dame aux camélias")
Jadwiga Baranska .....screenplay
演員 Actor
安娜·拉德旺 Anna Radwan .....Malgorzata Gautier
讓·弗里茲 Jan Frycz .....Armand Duval
Anna Dymna .....Prudencja Duvernoy, Malgorzata's friend
Marek Bukowski
Stanislawa Celinska .....Julia Duprat
Dorota Chotecka .....Woman in 'Casino'
Artur Dziurman
揚·恩格萊特 Jan Englert
原創音樂 Original Music
Eugeniusz Rudnik
攝影 Cinematography
Tomasz Dobrowolski
Adam Sikora
剪輯 Film Editing
Ewa Romanowska-Rózewicz
藝術指導 Proction Designer
Andrzej Przedworski
服裝設計 Costume Design by
Barbara Ptak
2007年的
譯 名 茶花女
片 名 Camille
導 演 Gregory Mackenzie
主 演 西耶娜·米勒 Sienna Miller ....Camille Foster
詹姆斯·弗蘭科 James Franco ....Silias
大衛·卡拉丁 David Carradine ....Cowboy Bob
斯科特·格林 Scott Glenn ....Sheriff Foster
年 代 2007年
國 家 英國
類 別 冒險/喜劇/劇情/愛情
IMDB評分 6.1/10 (1,069 votes)
語 言 英語
片 長 90 Mins
是英國拍的，法國沒拍過。
Ⅳ 小仲馬 英語版資料
Biography
Alexandre Dumas, fils was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay (1794 – 1868), a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas. In 1831 his father legally recognized him and ensured the young Dumas received the best ecation possible at the Institution Goubaux and the Collège Bourbon. At that time, the law allowed the elder Dumas to take the child away from his mother. Her agony inspired Dumas fils to write about tragic female characters. In almost all of his writings, he emphasized the moral purpose of literature and in his 1858 play, Le fils naturel (The Illegitimate Son), he espoused the belief that if a man fathers an illegitimate child, then he has an obligation to legitimize the child and marry the woman.
Dumas' paternal great-grandparents were a white French nobleman and a young black Haitian woman. In the boarding schools, Dumas fils was constantly taunted by his classmates. These issues all profoundly influenced his thoughts, behaviour, and writing.
In 1844 Dumas fils moved to Saint-Germain-en-Laye to live with his father. There, he met Marie Duplessis, a young courtesan who would be the inspiration for his romantic novel, La dame aux camélias (The Lady of the Camellias). Adapted into a play, it was titled in English (especially in the United States) as Camille and is the basis for Verdi's 1853 opera, La Traviata. Although he admitted that he had done the adaptation because he needed the money, he had a huge success with the play. Thus began the playwriting career of Dumas fils which not only eclipsed that of his father ring his lifetime but also dominated the serious French stage for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. After this, he virtually abandoned the novel (though his semi-autobiographical L'Affaire Clemenceau (1867) achieved some success).
On 31 December 1864, Alexandre Dumas fils married Nadesjda von Knorring (1826 – April 1895), daughter of Johan Reinhold von Knorring and wife, and widow of Alexander, Prince Naryschkine, whom he married at Moscow and who died in 1864, with whom he had two daughters: Marie-Alexandrine-Henriette Dumas, born 20 November 1860, who married Maurice Lippmann and was the mother of Serge Napoléon Lippmann (1886 – 1975) and Auguste Alexandre Lippmann (1881 – 1960); and Jeanine Dumas (3 May 1867 –), who married Ernest d' Hauterive (1864 – 1957), son of George Lecourt d' Hauterive and wife (married in 1861) Léontine de Leusse. After Naryschkine's death, he married in June 1895 Henriette Régnier de La Brière (1851 – 1934), without issue.
In 1874, he was admitted to the Académie française and in 1894 he was awarded the Légion d'Honneur.
Alexandre Dumas fils died at Marly-le-Roi, Yvelines, on November 27, 1895 and was interred in the Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris. It was, perhaps coincidentally, only some 100 metres away from Marie Duplessis.
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Alexandre Dumas，1824年7月27日－1895年11月27日）是法國劇作家、小說家。為了與同為作家的父親作區別，多稱小仲馬（Dumas, fils），代表作是小說《茶花女》。
生平
小仲馬是大仲馬與一名女裁縫卡特琳·拉貝（Marie-Catherine Labay）所生下的私生子，生於法國巴黎。大仲馬成名後，混跡於上流社會，將他們母子拋棄掉，直到小仲馬七歲時，大仲馬終於良心發現，從法律上承認了這個兒子。雖然大仲馬負擔了拉貝的生活費用，但是他始終沒有承認拉貝是他的妻子，
1842年小仲馬遇見瑪麗‧杜普萊西，即後來《茶花女》中瑪格麗特的原型，對她一見鍾情，但是他對瑪麗不肯退出上流聲妓事業表示憤怒，寫了絕交書。
1847年，瑪麗病逝於巴黎。小仲馬悲痛萬分，將這段故事寫成小說《茶花女》，揭露資產階級道德的虛偽和罪惡，使他一舉成名。
1852年小仲馬的話劇《茶花女》初演時，大仲馬正在布魯塞爾過著短期的流亡生涯，小仲馬給他電報上說：「第一天上演時的盛況，足以令人誤以為是您的作品。」大仲馬回電說：「孩子，我最好的作品就是你」。1875年2月21日，小仲馬以二十二票的多數被選入法蘭西學院，在當時是最高榮譽，使他的事業可說是功德圓滿，相較於無緣於此的巴爾扎克、大仲馬幸運許多。
1895年小仲馬續娶了比他小40歲的亨利埃特·雷尼埃，半年後小仲馬就去世了。小仲馬早年想躋身文壇，但是怎麼寫都不成，於是他早就打名妓瑪麗的主意，開始搜集寫作的素材。在瑪麗患肺病咯血期間，他就寫成了小說《茶花女》，小仲馬一生中都不斷的為此懺悔。他的作品往往道德勸說意味過於濃厚，在劇情上反而顯得呆板。
作品
小仲馬其它有名的戲劇作品包括《半上流社會》（1855）、《金錢問題》（1857）、《私生子》（1858）、《放盪的父親》（1859）、《克洛德的妻子》（1873）、《福朗西雍》（1887）等。
小仲馬的劇作是法國戲劇由浪漫主義向現實主義過渡時期的產物，話劇《茶花女》也被視為法國現實主義戲劇開端的標志。他的劇作不以情節的曲折離奇取勝，而以真切自然的情理感人，結構謹嚴，語言流暢，富有抒情意味。1897年，翻譯家林紓翻釋《茶花女》，當時譯名為《巴黎茶花女遺事》。
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The Lady of the Camellias (French: La Dame aux camélias) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils, first published in 1848.
Adapted for the stage, La Dame aux camélias premiered at the Theatre de Vaudeville in Paris, France on February 2, 1852. An instant success, Giuseppe Verdi immediately set about to put the story to music. His work became the 1853 opera La Traviata with the female protagonist "Marguerite Gautier" renamed "Violetta Valéry".
In the English-speaking world, La Dame aux Camélias became known as Camille and sixteen versions have been performed at Broadway theatres alone. The Lady of the Camellias is "Marguerite Gautier" who is based on Marie Duplessis, the real life lover of author Dumas, fils.
Stage performances
Since its debut as a play, numerous editions have been performed at theatres around the world. The role of the tragic "Marguerite Gautier" became one of the most coveted amongst actresses and includes performances by Lillian Gish, Eleonora Duse, Margaret Anglin, Gabrielle Réjane, Tallulah Bankhead, Eva Le Gallienne, Isabelle Adjani, plus Sarah Bernhardt who played the role in a 1912 film and on the stage in Paris, London and in several Broadway revivals.
Film adaptations
In addition to inspiring La Traviata, The Lady of the Camellias has been adapted for approximately twenty different motion pictures in numerous countries and in a wide variety of languages. The role of "Marguerite Gautier" has been played on screen by Sarah Bernhardt, Clara Kimball Young, Theda Bara, Yvonne Printemps, Alla Nazimova, Greta Garbo, Micheline Presle, Francesca Bertini, Isabelle Huppert and others.
Films entitled Camille
Main article: Camille (film)
To date, there have been at least eight adaptations of The Lady of the Camellias entitled Camille.
Other films based on La Dame aux Camélias
In addition to the Camille films, the story has been the adapted into numerous other screen versions:
* Kameliadamen, the first movie based on the work. Kameliadamen was a 1907 Danish silent film directed by Viggo Larsen and starring Oda Alstrup, Larsen, Gustave Lund and Robert Storm Petersen.
* La Dame aux Camélias, a 1911 French language silent film, directed by André Calmettes and Henri Pouctal. It stars Sarah Bernhardt.
* La Signora delle Camelie, a 1915 Italian language film. It was directed by Baldassarre Negroni and Gustavo Serena. It stars Hesperia, Alberto Collo and Ida Carloni Talli.
* Damen med kameliorna, a 1925 Swedish film adapted and directed by Olof Molander. It stars Uno Henning and Tora Teje.
* La Dame aux Camélias, the first sound adaptation. La Dame aux Camélias was a 1934 French film adapted by Abel Gance and directed by Gance and Fernand Rivers. It stars Yvonne Printemps and Pierre Fresnay.
* Greta Garbo had the starring role in Camille (1936), directed by George Cukor
* A 1944 Spanish language version was proced in Mexico. It was adapted by Roberto Tasker and directed by Gabriel Soria, and stars Lina Montes and Emilio Tuero.
* La Dame aux Camélias, a 1953 French film adapted by Bernard Natanson and directed by Raymond Bernard. It stars Gino Cervi, Micheline Presle and Roland Alexandre.
* Camelia, a 1954 Mexican film adapted by José Arenas, Edmundo Báez, Roberto Gavaldón and Gregorio Walerstein. It was directed by Gavaldón, and stars María Félix.
* La Mujer de las camelias, a 1954 Argentine film adapted by Alexis de Arancibia (as Wassen Eisen) and Ernesto Arancibia, and directed by Ernesto Arancibia. It stars Mona Maris.
* La Dame aux Camélias, a 1980 French language film adapted by Jean Aurenche, Enrico Medioli and Vladimir Pozner, and directed by Mauro Bolognini. It stars Isabelle Huppert.
The story also partly inspired the plot of the movies Pretty Woman and Moulin Rouge!.
Storyline / Content
It is a story of a young man who has an affair with a courtesan, Marguerite. His father ends the affair, and Marguerite dies of tuberculosis.
The Worcester Evening Gazette published an extremely condensed summary of La Dame aux Camélias:
ACT I—PARIS
He—You are sick. I love you.
She—Don't. You can't afford it.
ACT II—PARIS
She—I think I love you. But good-bye; the Count is coming.
He—That man? Then I see you no more. But no! An idea! Let us fly to the country.
ACT III—THE COUNTRY
His Father—You ruin my son! Leave him.
She—He loves me.
His Father—You are a good woman. I respect you. Leave him.
She—I go.
ACT IV—PARIS
She—You again? I never loved you.
He—Fly with me, or I die.
She—I love you; but good-bye now.
ACT V—PARIS
She—(Very sick.) Is it you? Is God so good?
He—Pardon me. My father sent me.
She—I pardon you. I love you. I die. [Dies. Tears. Sensation. Curtain.]
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茶花女（La dame aux camélias），法國作家小仲馬最著名的小說之一，於1848年出版。
故事講述了一個青年人與巴黎上流社會的一位交際花的曲折凄婉愛情故事。
小說《茶花女》情節梗概
貧苦的鄉下姑娘瑪格麗特來到巴黎開始了賣笑生涯，花容月貌的她被巴黎的貴族爭相追逐，成了紅極一時的「交際花」，人稱「茶花女」（山茶花女士），因為她隨身的妝扮總是有一束茶花。
瑪格麗特得了肺結核，在礦泉治療療養院里遇到一位貴族小姐，身材相貌和瑪格麗特相似，因肺結核第三期不久便過世了，她的父親摩里阿龍公爵偶然發現酷似他女兒的瑪格麗特，便收為義女。公爵答應負擔瑪格麗特的全部生活費用，只要她能放棄賣笑生涯。但瑪格麗特身不由己，公爵便將資助減少了一半，瑪格麗特入不敷出，欠下幾萬法郎的債務。
一天晚上的交際歡場中，鄰居勃呂當斯帶來的兩個青年其中之一阿芒•杜瓦瘋狂地愛上了瑪格麗特。
瑪格麗特生病的一年間，阿芒每天來探問病情，卻不留下自己的姓名。勃呂當斯向瑪格麗特轉述了阿芒對她的一片痴情，她很感動。一天，瑪格麗特跳舞時病情突然發作，阿芒關切地勸她不要這樣戕害自己，並向她表白愛情，他現在還珍藏著她六個月前丟掉的紐扣。瑪格麗特原已淡漠的心靈動了真情，她送給阿芒一朵茶花，以示以心相許。
阿芒真摯的愛情激發了瑪格麗特對純朴生活的熱望，她決心擺脫沉淪的巴黎交際花生活，和阿芒到鄉下隱居。她計劃獨自籌一筆錢，支開阿芒。然而阿芒出門時恰巧碰上瑪格麗特過去的情人，頓時起疑。他激憤地給瑪格麗特寫了封信，說他不願意成為別人取笑的對象，他將離開巴黎。
然而對阿芒來說，瑪格麗特是他整個希望和生命，他沒有離開巴黎，他跪著請愛人原諒他，瑪格麗特對阿芒也真情表白：「你是我在煩亂孤寂的生活中所呼喚的人」。
經過周折兩人在巴黎郊外租了一間房子。然而公爵知道了，瑪格麗特的經濟來源斷絕了，她背著愛人典當了自己的首飾、車馬換取生活費用。阿芒知道後，打算變賣一筆母親留給他的遺產，以還清愛人的債務。阿芒收到經紀人要他去巴黎簽字的信，阿芒離別愛人。
那封信原來是阿芒的父親、稅務局長杜瓦先生寫的，他騙阿芒離開，然後找到瑪格麗特，告訴她：他的女兒、阿芒的姊妹與一個體面家庭的公子將要訂婚，然而對方家庭聽到阿芒和交際花瑪格麗特的關系後表示：如果阿芒不和這種風塵女子斷絕關系，就要退婚。瑪格麗特痛苦地哀求杜瓦先生：讓她與愛人阿芒斷絕關系，就等於要她的命。可杜瓦先生毫不退讓，瑪格麗特只好做出犧牲，向杜瓦先生起誓與阿芒絕交。
瑪格麗特非常悲傷地給愛人寫了絕交信，返回巴黎恢復昔日交際花的荒唐生活。她接受了瓦爾維勒男爵的追求，男爵幫她還清了所有債務，並贖回了首飾和馬車。阿芒收到絕交信後懷著痛苦的心情隨父親回到家鄉。
阿芒仍深深地思戀著瑪格麗特，他又失魂落魄地來到巴黎。
他要報復愛人的「背叛」，他找到了茶花女，處處讓她難堪，罵她是無情無義、沒良心的娼婦，把愛情當作商品交易。瑪格麗特面對愛人的誤會，傷心地勸他忘了自己，永不再見。阿芒卻要她一同逃離巴黎的歡場，逃到沒人認識他們的地方，緊緊守著他們的愛情。瑪格麗特說她已經起過誓，她不能那樣做；阿芒誤以為她和男爵曾海誓山盟，便氣憤地推倒瑪格麗特，把一疊鈔票扔在她身上羞辱她，轉身離去。瑪格麗特深受刺激，大叫一聲，昏倒在地。
瑪格麗特身心俱疲，一病不起。男爵與阿芒決斗受了傷，阿芒離開了法國。
聖誕節快到了，瑪格麗特的病情日痾，臉色蒼白，無人探望，倍感孤寂。杜瓦先生來信感謝她信守誓言，已寫信把真相告訴了阿芒，現在瑪格麗特唯一的希望就是能再見愛人一面。
臨死前，茶花女的債主們紛紛上門，催逼還債。債務法庭執行官奉命查封了她的全部財產，只等她死後就拍賣還債。彌留之際，瑪格麗特不斷地呼喊著愛人的名字，「眼裡淌下無聲的眼淚」，她最終也沒能再見愛人一面。
瑪格麗特死後只有一個好心的鄰居米利將她入殮。阿芒重回巴黎後，米利把茶花女的一本日記交給了他。至此，阿芒才知道了她高尚的心靈。日記中寫道：「除了你的侮辱是你始終愛我的證據外，我似乎覺得你越是折磨我，等到你知道真相的那一天，我在你眼中也就會顯得越加崇高。」
阿芒懷著無限的悔恨與惆悵，為愛人瑪格麗特遷墳安葬，並在她的墳前擺滿了白茶花。
其他相關作品
光緒二十三年（1897年），林紓翻譯與王壽昌合譯小仲馬《巴黎茶花女遺事》，光緒二十五年一月在福州由畏廬刊行。是中國介紹西洋小說的第一部，一時風行全國。
歌劇《茶花女》
著名作曲家威爾第根據小仲馬的這部小說改編的歌劇《茶花女》（La traviata）
好萊塢電影
好萊塢1936年根據該小說改編成電影《茶花女》（Camille）
電影《紅磨坊》（Moulin Rouge!）（2001）：其中男女主人公的愛情情節——相戀——誤解——消除誤解——女主角病逝——，取材於小仲馬的這部小說。
Ⅵ 茶花女用英語怎麼說
《茶花女》(中文襲)
《The Lady of the Camellias》(英文)
《La dame aux Camélias》 (法文)
《茶花女》是法國亞歷山大·仲馬（Alexandre Dumas，1824年7月27日-1895年11月27日）的代表作，他為了與同為作家的父親作區別，多稱小仲馬（Dumas, fils）。他本身是法國劇作家、小說家。《茶花女》是小仲馬的代表作。
Ⅶ 求《茶花女》的英文簡介和內容介紹
La Dame aux camélias
[Francesco Maria Piave's libretto for La traviata is based upon the novel La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The following article traces the creation of that work. - NMR]
Alexandre Dumas, fils (son), born in Paris in 1824, is considered one of the foremost French dramatists of the nineteenth century. He was the illegitimate son of Alexandre Dumas, pére (father), the author of such novels as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.
Dumas was raised by his seamstress mother, Catherine Labay, until his father legally recognized him and assumed responsibility for his care. He attended college but left before receiving a degree. His illegitimacy caused him much unhappiness, both in private school and in college where he had few friends. At age seventeen, he moved in with his father, soon adopted his extravagant lifestyle and fell into debt. At the theatre one evening he first saw Marie Duplessis, already famous in the demimonde for her beauty and ability to get men to spend money on her. In an episode reflected in the opera, he was at her home one day when a coughing episode resulted in her spitting up blood. He urged her to change her way of life, but she replied, "I should die. This life of excitement is what keeps me alive". He offered the kind of life she would need to get well, and she finally agreed upon the condition. "You are not to spy on me, you are not to ask questions; I shall live exactly as I please without giving you any account of what I do." Thus began liaison, as a result of which Dumas was soon deeply in debt. Finally, he decided he must break with her and sent her the following letter.
My dear Marie, I am neither rich enough to love you as I should like, nor poor enough to be loved by you as you would like. There is nothing for us to do but forget — you a name which must mean very little to you; I a happiness which is no longer possible for me. Needless to tell you how miserable I am, since you know how I love you. So, this is goodbye. You are too tenderhearted not to understand the reason for this letter, too intelligent not to forgive me. A thousand souvenirs, — A.D.
He was on a trip to Spain and North Africa when he learned that she was gravely ill. He wrote to her, telling her he would return and ask for her forgiveness. But he waited too long. Duplessis died of tuberculosis in 1846. Her tragic death, along with bitterness over his illegitimacy, inspire Dumas to write the novel La Dame aux camélias (The Lady of the Camellias), portions of which are based on the Duplessis-Dumas affair. The name of the hero, Armand Duval, is a thin disguise for the author. Actually, Dumas tells the story in the third person as it was related to him by Armand Duval.
Dumas ends his novel with great admiration for his heroine: "I do not draw from this story the conclusion that all women like Marguerite are capable of doing all that she did...far from it; but I have discovered that one of them experienced a serious love in the course of her life, that she suffered for it, and that she died of it". In life, Dumas had tried to save her; in the novel he tried to redeem her memory by making her a much less self-centered and more sympathetic character. This is the Marie best known today in her manifestations as Violetta, Camille and Marguerite.
Dumas's greatest triumph came in 1852 with the proction of the stage adaptation of the play based on this novel. It faithfully portrayed the life of a Parisian courtesan and brought realism to the French stage. His father was at first skeptical of the proposal to convert the novel to a play but so moved by the result that he agreed to proce it. Censors feared audiences would recognize characters as admirers of Duplessis and create a scandal, delaying the opening for four years. A powerful member of the nobility, the Duc de Morny, half brother of Napoleón III, supported Dumas, and the play was a success. It enabled Duma to pay off his debts, many incurred with Marie. Henry James later observed, "Some tender young men and some coughing young women have only to speak the lines to give it a great place among the love stories of the world". Giuseppe Verdi apparently heartily agreed because he based his popular opera La traviata on Dumas's work.
The success of La traviata did not quiet the critics of Dumas's La Dame aux camélias. Some considered the story poor and clumsy and said it cast a very thin veil over the most immoral acts. The same critics said Marguerite Gautier (the name given to the Duplessis in the play) is totally corrupt and in real life would not have given up her lover until he had no money left to support her. One wrote, "We are bound to protest against the false halo which he has shed round Marquerite to render her attractive to the undiscriminating reader".
The critics and essayists have continued to evaluate Dumas's work. In a 1972 essay, Roger Clark wrote, "It is a society from which there can be no escape, in which the penalty for non-conformity is death". In 1874, Dumas was elected to the illustrious L'Academie Française, an act which also prompted severe criticism. It was said, "In comedies inherently vicious he pauses to preach virtue but with language shocking even to vice, yet he has been elected a member of the French Academy, constituted to be a tribunal of taste".
Clayton Hamilton attempted to explain why the play has held the stage for over a century. He believes that it is because every celebrated actress desires to play the role of Marguerite Gautier.
No woman has ever failed as Camille (the name later given the heroine in this country for no explicable reason). It is kept alive because it contains a very easy and celebrated part that every ambitious actress wants to play. La Dame aux camélias is brought back decade after decade, not by reason of the permanent importance of the suthor but by reason of recurrent aspirations of an ever-growing group of emotional actresses.
Among the famous actresses who have had successes as Camille were Eleanora Duse, Sarah Bernhardt and Greta Garbo, who starred in the 1937 film with Robert Taylor. Bernhardt first played the role in her thirties and continued it until a number of her 'farewell' tours when she was seventy and had only one leg.
Dumas had a relationship with a Russian princess in 1859. A daughter was born, but they did not acknowledge her as theirs until the princess was widowed. He continued to write material that shocked his contemporaries — eleven of his plays have illicit love as a theme — yet he was admitted to the Legion d'honneur. His wife died in 1895 and, after marrying his long-time mistress, he died that same year.
In 1929, the Chicago Civic Opera proced a new work, Camille by a young American composer, Hamilton Forrest, and commissioned by the famous soprano, Mary Garden. It was to be sung in French with a contemporary setting. After many delays, it finally opened to mixed reviews. Mary Garden was acclaimed, the music less so. One critic called it a masterpiece, another saw no future for it. It had a few more performances, and parts were broadcast on the radio; then it disappeared. Despite some recent attempts to revive interest in it, Camille is probably doomed to obscurity, while Verdi's La traviata continues to be one of the most popular and frequently performed operas.
茶花女》是法國亞歷山大·仲馬（Alexandre Dumas，年7月27日-1895年11月27日）的代表作，他為了與同為作家的父親作區別，多稱小仲馬（Dumas, fils）。他本身是法國劇作家、小說家。《茶花女》是小仲馬的代表作。 《茶花女》（La traviata）亦是朱塞佩·威爾第（Giuseppe Verdi）作曲的四幕歌劇。義大利文劇本由皮亞威（Francesco Maria Piave）編寫，改編自亞歷山大·仲馬於1848年出版的小說《茶花女》（The Lady of the Camellias，La dame aux Camélias）。歌劇於1853年3月6日在威尼斯鳳凰歌劇院（Teatro la Fenice）首演。作品名稱「La traviata」解作「流浪的婦人」，或「失落的人」。 故事的原著小說，亦被改拍成電影《茶花女》（Camille）（1936）。《情陷紅磨坊》（Moulin Rouge!）（2001）亦是以茶花女作藍本改編。
劇本簡介
劇本。法國小仲馬作於1848年。巴黎名妓瑪格麗特為青年阿爾芒的真摯愛情所感動，毅然離開社交生活，與阿爾芒同居鄉間。阿爾芒之父責備瑪格麗特毀了兒子的前程，瑪格麗特被迫返回巴黎重操舊業。阿爾芒盛怒之下，在社交場合當眾羞辱她。瑪格麗特一病不起，含恨而死。阿爾芒讀了瑪格麗特的遺書，方知真相，追悔莫及。
作者簡介
小仲馬（1824~1895），19 世紀法國著名小說家、戲劇家。他的父親是以多產聞名於世的傑出作家大仲馬。在大仲馬奢侈豪華而又飄浮不定的生活影響下，小仲馬最初「覺得用功和游戲都索然寡味」。20歲時，他就結識了一些有夫之婦，過著紙醉金邊的生活。另一方面，小仲馬就熱切地期望著自己也能像父親一樣，揚名於文壇。於是，他也開始從現實中取材，從婦女、婚姻等問題中尋找創作的靈感。
劇情詳介
瑪格麗特原來是個貧苦的鄉下姑娘，來到巴黎後，開始了賣笑生涯。由於生得花容月貌，巴黎的貴族公子爭相追逐，成了紅極一時的「社交明星」。她隨身的裝扮總是少不了一束茶花，人稱「茶花女」。
茶花女得了肺病，在接受礦泉治療時，療養院里有位貴族小姐，身材、長相和瑪格麗特差不多，只是肺病已到了第三期，不久便死了。小姐的父親摩里阿龍公爵在偶然發現瑪格麗特很像他女兒，便收她做了乾女兒。瑪格麗特說出了自己的身世，公爵答應只要她能改變自己過去的生活，便負擔她的全部日常費用。但瑪格麗特不能完全做到，公爵便將錢減少了一半，瑪格麗特入不敷出，到現在已欠下幾萬法郎的債務。
一天晚上10多鍾，瑪格麗特回來後，一群客人來訪。鄰居普律當絲帶來兩個青年，其中一個是稅務局長迪瓦爾先生的兒子阿爾芒·迪瓦爾，他瘋狂地愛著茶花女。
一年前，瑪格麗特生病期間，阿爾芒每天跑來打聽病情，卻不肯留下自己的姓名。普律當絲向瑪格麗特講了阿爾芒的一片痴情，她很感動。瑪格麗特和朋友們跳舞時，病情突然發作，阿爾芒非常關切地勸她不要這樣殘害自己，並向瑪格麗特表白自己的愛情。他告訴茶花女，他現在還珍藏著她六個月前丟掉的紐扣。瑪格麗特原已淡薄的心靈再次動了真情，她送給阿爾芒一朵茶花，以心相許。
阿爾芒真摯的愛情激發了瑪格麗特對生活的熱望，她決心擺脫百無聊賴的巴黎生活，和阿爾芒到鄉下住一段時間。她准備獨自一人籌劃一筆錢，就請阿爾芒離開她一晚上。阿爾芒出去找瑪格麗特時，恰巧碰上瑪格麗特過去的情人，頓生嫉妒。他給瑪格麗特寫了一封措辭激烈的信，說他不願意成為別人取笑的對象，他將離開巴黎。
但他並沒有走，瑪格麗特是他整個希望和生命，他跪著請瑪格麗特原諒他，瑪格麗特對阿爾芒傾述「你是我在煩亂的孤寂生活中所呼喚的一個人」。
經過努力，瑪格麗特和阿爾芒在巴黎郊外租把一間房子。公爵知道後，斷絕了瑪格麗特的經濟來源。她背著阿爾芒，典當了自己的金銀首飾和車馬來支付生活費用。阿爾芒了解後，決定把母親留給他的一筆遺產轉讓，以還清瑪格麗特所欠下的債務。經紀人要他去簽字，他離開瑪格麗特去巴黎。
那封信原來是阿爾芒的父親迪瓦爾先生寫的，他想騙阿爾芒離開，然後去找瑪格麗特。告訴瑪格麗特，他的女兒愛上一個體面的少年，那家打聽到阿爾芒和瑪格麗特的關系後表示：如果阿爾芒不和瑪格麗特斷絕關系，就要退婚。瑪格麗特痛苦地哀求迪瓦爾先生，如果要讓她與阿爾芒斷絕關系，就等於要她的命，可迪瓦爾先生毫不退讓。為阿爾芒和他的家庭，她只好作出犧牲，發誓與阿爾芒絕交。
瑪格麗特非常悲傷地給阿爾芒寫了封絕交信，然後回到巴黎，又開始了昔日的荒唐的生活。她接受了瓦爾維勒男爵的追求，他幫助她還清了一切債務，又贖回了首飾和馬車。阿爾芒也懷著痛苦的心情和父親回到家鄉。
阿爾芒禁仍深深地懷念著瑪格麗特，他又失魂落魄地來到巴黎。他決心報復瑪格麗特的「背叛」。他找到了瑪格麗特，處處給她難堪。罵她是沒有良心、無情無義的娼婦，把愛情作為商品出賣。瑪格麗特面對阿爾芒的誤會，傷心地勸他忘了自己，永遠不要再見面。阿爾芒卻要她與自己一同逃離巴黎，逃到沒人認識他們的地方，緊緊守著他們的愛情。瑪格麗特說她不能那樣，因為她已經起過誓，阿爾芒誤以為她和男爵有過海誓山盟，便氣憤地給瑪格麗特寫信侮辱她，並寄去了一疊鈔票 瑪格麗特受了這場刺激，一病不起。新年快到了，瑪格麗特的病情更嚴重了，臉色蒼白，沒有一個人來探望她，她感到格外孤寂。迪瓦爾先生來信告訴她，他感謝瑪格麗特信守諾言，已寫信把事情的真象告訴了阿爾芒，現在瑪格麗特唯一的希望就是再次見到阿爾芒。
臨死前，債主們都來了，帶著借據，逼她還債。執行官奉命來執行判決，查封了她的全部財產，只等她死後就進行拍賣。彌留之際，她不斷地呼喊著阿爾芒的名字，「從她的睛里流出了無聲的眼淚」。她始終沒有再見到她心愛的人。 死後只有一個好心的鄰居米利為她入殮。當阿爾芒重回到巴黎時，她把瑪格麗特的一本日記交給了她。從日記中，阿爾芒才知道了她的高尚心靈。「除了你的侮辱是你始終愛我的證據外，我似乎覺得你越是折磨我，等到你知道真相的那一天，我在你眼中也就會顯得越加崇高。」
阿爾芒懷著無限的悔恨與惆悵，專門為瑪格麗特遷墳安葬，並在她的墳前擺滿了白色的茶花。
Ⅷ 需要《茶花女》的英文簡介
La Dame aux camé
[Francesco Maria Piave's libretto for La traviata is based upon the novel La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The following article traces the creation of that work. - NMR]
Alexandre Dumas, fils (son), born in Paris in 1824, is considered one of the foremost French dramatists of the nineteenth century. He was the illegitimate son of Alexandre Dumas, pére (father), the author of such novels as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.
Dumas was raised by his seamstress mother, Catherine Labay, until his father legally recognized him and assumed responsibility for his care. He attended college but left before receiving a degree. His illegitimacy caused him much unhappiness, both in private school and in college where he had few friends. At age seventeen, he moved in with his father, soon adopted his extravagant lifestyle and fell into debt. At the theatre one evening he first saw Marie Duplessis, already famous in the demimonde for her beauty and ability to get men to spend money on her. In an episode reflected in the opera, he was at her home one day when a coughing episode resulted in her spitting up blood. He urged her to change her way of life, but she replied, "I should die. This life of excitement is what keeps me alive". He offered the kind of life she would need to get well, and she finally agreed upon the condition. "You are not to spy on me, you are not to ask questions; I shall live exactly as I please without giving you any account of what I do." Thus began liaison, as a result of which Dumas was soon deeply in debt. Finally, he decided he must break with her and sent her the following letter.
My dear Marie, I am neither rich enough to love you as I should like, nor poor enough to be loved by you as you would like. There is nothing for us to do but forget — you a name which must mean very little to you; I a happiness which is no longer possible for me. Needless to tell you how miserable I am, since you know how I love you. So, this is goodbye. You are too tenderhearted not to understand the reason for this letter, too intelligent not to forgive me. A thousand souvenirs, — A.D.
He was on a trip to Spain and North Africa when he learned that she was gravely ill. He wrote to her, telling her he would return and ask for her forgiveness. But he waited too long. Duplessis died of tuberculosis in 1846. Her tragic death, along with bitterness over his illegitimacy, inspire Dumas to write the novel La Dame aux camélias (The Lady of the Camellias), portions of which are based on the Duplessis-Dumas affair. The name of the hero, Armand Duval, is a thin disguise for the author. Actually, Dumas tells the story in the third person as it was related to him by Armand Duval.
Dumas ends his novel with great admiration for his heroine: "I do not draw from this story the conclusion that all women like Marguerite are capable of doing all that she did...far from it; but I have discovered that one of them experienced a serious love in the course of her life, that she suffered for it, and that she died of it". In life, Dumas had tried to save her; in the novel he tried to redeem her memory by making her a much less self-centered and more sympathetic character. This is the Marie best known today in her manifestations as Violetta, Camille and Marguerite.
Dumas's greatest triumph came in 1852 with the proction of the stage adaptation of the play based on this novel. It faithfully portrayed the life of a Parisian courtesan and brought realism to the French stage. His father was at first skeptical of the proposal to convert the novel to a play but so moved by the result that he agreed to proce it. Censors feared audiences would recognize characters as admirers of Duplessis and create a scandal, delaying the opening for four years. A powerful member of the nobility, the Duc de Morny, half brother of Napoleón III, supported Dumas, and the play was a success. It enabled Duma to pay off his debts, many incurred with Marie. Henry James later observed, "Some tender young men and some coughing young women have only to speak the lines to give it a great place among the love stories of the world". Giuseppe Verdi apparently heartily agreed because he based his popular opera La traviata on Dumas's work.
The success of La traviata did not quiet the critics of Dumas's La Dame aux camélias. Some considered the story poor and clumsy and said it cast a very thin veil over the most immoral acts. The same critics said Marguerite Gautier (the name given to the Duplessis in the play) is totally corrupt and in real life would not have given up her lover until he had no money left to support her. One wrote, "We are bound to protest against the false halo which he has shed round Marquerite to render her attractive to the undiscriminating reader".
The critics and essayists have continued to evaluate Dumas's work. In a 1972 essay, Roger Clark wrote, "It is a society from which there can be no escape, in which the penalty for non-conformity is death". In 1874, Dumas was elected to the illustrious L'Academie Française, an act which also prompted severe criticism. It was said, "In comedies inherently vicious he pauses to preach virtue but with language shocking even to vice, yet he has been elected a member of the French Academy, constituted to be a tribunal of taste".
Clayton Hamilton attempted to explain why the play has held the stage for over a century. He believes that it is because every celebrated actress desires to play the role of Marguerite Gautier.
No woman has ever failed as Camille (the name later given the heroine in this country for no explicable reason). It is kept alive because it contains a very easy and celebrated part that every ambitious actress wants to play. La Dame aux camélias is brought back decade after decade, not by reason of the permanent importance of the suthor but by reason of recurrent aspirations of an ever-growing group of emotional actresses.
Among the famous actresses who have had successes as Camille were Eleanora Duse, Sarah Bernhardt and Greta Garbo, who starred in the 1937 film with Robert Taylor. Bernhardt first played the role in her thirties and continued it until a number of her 'farewell' tours when she was seventy and had only one leg.
Dumas had a relationship with a Russian princess in 1859. A daughter was born, but they did not acknowledge her as theirs until the princess was widowed. He continued to write material that shocked his contemporaries — eleven of his plays have illicit love as a theme — yet he was admitted to the Legion d'honneur. His wife died in 1895 and, after marrying his long-time mistress, he died that same year.
In 1929, the Chicago Civic Opera proced a new work, Camille by a young American composer, Hamilton Forrest, and commissioned by the famous soprano, Mary Garden. It was to be sung in French with a contemporary setting. After many delays, it finally opened to mixed reviews. Mary Garden was acclaimed, the music less so. One critic called it a masterpiece, another saw no future for it. It had a few more performances, and parts were broadcast on the radio; then it disappeared. Despite some recent attempts to revive interest in it, Camille is probably doomed to obscurity, while Verdi's La traviata continues to be one of the most popular and frequently performed operas.
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