茶花女英语介绍
Ⅰ 小红帽 茶花女 小公主 小王子 等小说 还有一个自己随便再找一篇 的英语读后感80字至100左右
小红帽： 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
---Book Review: “”
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
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Ⅱ 茶花女作者介绍(英语+中文)
亚历山大·小仲马 Alexandre Dumas fils （1824～1895）是法国著名小说家大仲马当公务员时与一女裁缝所生的私生子。受父亲影响，他也热爱文学创作，并且和他父亲一样勤奋，成为法国戏剧由浪漫主义向现实主义过渡期间的重要作家。大仲马很为有这样的儿子而自豪。传说曾经有人问大仲马一生中最得意的作品是哪部，大仲马自豪地回答：小仲马。和大仲马侧重表现历史，专写历史剧和历史小说不同，小仲马则专写现代剧。小仲马幼年饱尝家庭不幸带来的种种辛酸和痛苦，亲眼看到大仲马一生受累于种种桃色事件，并因此落得晚景贫困凄凉。所以小仲马在他的作品中大力宣扬家庭及婚姻的神圣，对资产阶级社会风气、家庭生活和伦理道德做了比较细致的描绘和揭露，抨击了娼妓社会对家庭婚姻的威胁，歌颂了纯洁高尚的爱情，成为社会问题剧的创始人之一。
小仲马的代表作是《茶花女》，开始为小说，后被改编为话剧，它赞颂了玛格莉特出自淤泥而不染的高尚情操。话剧一上演，立即轰动了整个巴黎。小仲马从此后专门从事话剧创作，其他比较有名的作品有《私生子》、《金钱问题》、《放荡的父亲》《欧勃雷夫人的见解》《半上流社会》《阿尔丰斯先生》《福朗西雍》等。大都以妇女、婚姻、家庭为题材，真实地反映出社会生活的一个侧面。他的作品富有生活气息，感情真切自然，语言通俗流畅。
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)
英语和中文内容出自不同地方，所以不能完全一致，请参考
Ⅲ 关于歌剧《茶花女》和《弄臣》几个问题
一般咏叹调的名字抄就是袭唱词第一句。《茶花女》中还有第一幕茶花女的咏叹调，第二幕茶花女与阿芒父亲的二重唱、阿芒父亲对儿子唱的咏叹调；宴会一场的合唱；结尾茶花女独自一人在病床上的咏叹调，与阿芒的二重唱。
《弄臣》中第一幕公爵的独唱，第二幕吉尔达与利哥莱托的二重唱，吉尔达的独唱，第三幕公爵的独唱，吉尔达与利哥莱托的二重唱，结尾吉尔达与利哥莱托的二重唱。
Ⅳ 法国版《茶花女》电影 女主角名字
1936年的
中文片名
茶花女
外文片名
Camille
影片类型
爱情 / 剧情
片长
109分钟
国家/地区
美国
对白语言
英语
色彩
黑白
混音
单声道
级别
Australia:PG Argentina:13 Finland:K-16 Sweden:15 USA:Approved
版权所有
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp,; 25 December 1936; LP6845
制作日期
1936年11月7日 -
1936年7月28日 - 1936年10月27日
摄制格式
35 mm
洗印格式
35 mm
胶片长度
(12 reels)
2〉演职员表
导演 Director
乔治·丘克 George Cukor
编剧 Writer
小仲马 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)
演员 Actor
葛丽泰·嘉宝 Greta Garbo .....Marguerite Gautier
罗伯特·泰勒 Robert Taylor .....Armand Duval
莱昂纳尔·巴里摩尔 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
制作人 Proced by
David Lewis .....associate procer
Bernard H. Hyman .....procer (uncredited)
Irving Thalberg .....procer (uncredited)
3〉发行公司
Loew's Inc. [美国] ..... (1936) (USA) (theatrical)
米高梅 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) [美国] ..... (1936) (USA) (theatrical)
米高梅联美家庭娱乐 MGM/UA Home Entertainment [美国] ..... (198?) (USA) (VHS)
Reserva Especial [巴西] ..... (19??) (Brazil) (VHS)
Versátil Home Vídeo [巴西] ..... (19??) (Brazil) (VHS)
华纳家庭视频公司 Warner Home Video [美国] ..... (2005) (USA) (DVD)
Warner Home Vídeo [巴西] ..... (2005) (Brazil) (DVD)
4〉上映日期
美国 USA
1936年12月12日 ..... (New York City, New York)
奥地利 Austria
1937年
芬兰 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
影片类型
剧情
片长
Spain:90 min
国家/地区
波兰
对白语言
波兰语
色彩
彩色
2〉演职员表
导演 Director
泽基·安特科扎克 Jerzy Antczak
编剧 Writer
小仲马 Alexandre Dumas fils .....(novel and play "La dame aux camélias")
Jadwiga Baranska .....screenplay
演员 Actor
安娜·拉德旺 Anna Radwan .....Malgorzata Gautier
让·弗里兹 Jan Frycz .....Armand Duval
Anna Dymna .....Prudencja Duvernoy, Malgorzata's friend
Marek Bukowski
Stanislawa Celinska .....Julia Duprat
Dorota Chotecka .....Woman in 'Casino'
Artur Dziurman
扬·恩格莱特 Jan Englert
原创音乐 Original Music
Eugeniusz Rudnik
摄影 Cinematography
Tomasz Dobrowolski
Adam Sikora
剪辑 Film Editing
Ewa Romanowska-Rózewicz
艺术指导 Proction Designer
Andrzej Przedworski
服装设计 Costume Design by
Barbara Ptak
2007年的
译 名 茶花女
片 名 Camille
导 演 Gregory Mackenzie
主 演 西耶娜·米勒 Sienna Miller ....Camille Foster
詹姆斯·弗兰科 James Franco ....Silias
大卫·卡拉丁 David Carradine ....Cowboy Bob
斯科特·格林 Scott Glenn ....Sheriff Foster
年 代 2007年
国 家 英国
类 别 冒险/喜剧/剧情/爱情
IMDB评分 6.1/10 (1,069 votes)
语 言 英语
片 长 90 Mins
是英国拍的，法国没拍过。
Ⅳ 小仲马 英语版资料
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）是法国剧作家、小说家。为了与同为作家的父亲作区别，多称小仲马（Dumas, fils），代表作是小说《茶花女》。
生平
小仲马是大仲马与一名女裁缝卡特琳·拉贝（Marie-Catherine Labay）所生下的私生子，生於法国巴黎。大仲马成名后，混迹於上流社会，将他们母子抛弃掉，直到小仲马七岁时，大仲马终於良心发现，从法律上承认了这个儿子。虽然大仲马负担了拉贝的生活费用，但是他始终没有承认拉贝是他的妻子，
1842年小仲马遇见玛丽‧杜普莱西，即后来《茶花女》中玛格丽特的原型，对她一见钟情，但是他对玛丽不肯退出上流声妓事业表示愤怒，写了绝交书。
1847年，玛丽病逝於巴黎。小仲马悲痛万分，将这段故事写成小说《茶花女》，揭露资产阶级道德的虚伪和罪恶，使他一举成名。
1852年小仲马的话剧《茶花女》初演时，大仲马正在布鲁塞尔过著短期的流亡生涯，小仲马给他电报上说：“第一天上演时的盛况，足以令人误以为是您的作品。”大仲马回电说：“孩子，我最好的作品就是你”。1875年2月21日，小仲马以二十二票的多数被选入法兰西学院，在当时是最高荣誉，使他的事业可说是功德圆满，相较於无缘於此的巴尔扎克、大仲马幸运许多。
1895年小仲马续娶了比他小40岁的亨利埃特·雷尼埃，半年后小仲马就去世了。小仲马早年想跻身文坛，但是怎麼写都不成，於是他早就打名妓玛丽的主意，开始搜集写作的素材。在玛丽患肺病咯血期间，他就写成了小说《茶花女》，小仲马一生中都不断的为此忏悔。他的作品往往道德劝说意味过於浓厚，在剧情上反而显得呆板。
作品
小仲马其它有名的戏剧作品包括《半上流社会》（1855）、《金钱问题》（1857）、《私生子》（1858）、《放荡的父亲》（1859）、《克洛德的妻子》（1873）、《福朗西雍》（1887）等。
小仲马的剧作是法国戏剧由浪漫主义向现实主义过渡时期的产物，话剧《茶花女》也被视为法国现实主义戏剧开端的标志。他的剧作不以情节的曲折离奇取胜，而以真切自然的情理感人，结构谨严，语言流畅，富有抒情意味。1897年，翻译家林纾翻释《茶花女》，当时译名为《巴黎茶花女遗事》。
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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），法国作家小仲马最著名的小说之一，於1848年出版。
故事讲述了一个青年人与巴黎上流社会的一位交际花的曲折凄婉爱情故事。
小说《茶花女》情节梗概
贫苦的乡下姑娘玛格丽特来到巴黎开始了卖笑生涯，花容月貌的她被巴黎的贵族争相追逐，成了红极一时的“交际花”，人称“茶花女”（山茶花女士），因为她随身的妆扮总是有一束茶花。
玛格丽特得了肺结核，在矿泉治疗疗养院里遇到一位贵族小姐，身材相貌和玛格丽特相似，因肺结核第三期不久便过世了，她的父亲摩里阿龙公爵偶然发现酷似他女儿的玛格丽特，便收为义女。公爵答应负担玛格丽特的全部生活费用，只要她能放弃卖笑生涯。但玛格丽特身不由己，公爵便将资助减少了一半，玛格丽特入不敷出，欠下几万法郎的债务。
一天晚上的交际欢场中，邻居勃吕当斯带来的两个青年其中之一阿芒•杜瓦疯狂地爱上了玛格丽特。
玛格丽特生病的一年间，阿芒每天来探问病情，却不留下自己的姓名。勃吕当斯向玛格丽特转述了阿芒对她的一片痴情，她很感动。一天，玛格丽特跳舞时病情突然发作，阿芒关切地劝她不要这样戕害自己，并向她表白爱情，他现在还珍藏着她六个月前丢掉的纽扣。玛格丽特原已淡漠的心灵动了真情，她送给阿芒一朵茶花，以示以心相许。
阿芒真挚的爱情激发了玛格丽特对纯朴生活的热望，她决心摆脱沉沦的巴黎交际花生活，和阿芒到乡下隐居。她计划独自筹一笔钱，支开阿芒。然而阿芒出门时恰巧碰上玛格丽特过去的情人，顿时起疑。他激愤地给玛格丽特写了封信，说他不愿意成为别人取笑的对象，他将离开巴黎。
然而对阿芒来说，玛格丽特是他整个希望和生命，他没有离开巴黎，他跪着请爱人原谅他，玛格丽特对阿芒也真情表白：“你是我在烦乱孤寂的生活中所呼唤的人”。
经过周折两人在巴黎郊外租了一间房子。然而公爵知道了，玛格丽特的经济来源断绝了，她背着爱人典当了自己的首饰、车马换取生活费用。阿芒知道后，打算变卖一笔母亲留给他的遗产，以还清爱人的债务。阿芒收到经纪人要他去巴黎签字的信，阿芒离别爱人。
那封信原来是阿芒的父亲、税务局长杜瓦先生写的，他骗阿芒离开，然后找到玛格丽特，告诉她：他的女儿、阿芒的姊妹与一个体面家庭的公子将要订婚，然而对方家庭听到阿芒和交际花玛格丽特的关系后表示：如果阿芒不和这种风尘女子断绝关系，就要退婚。玛格丽特痛苦地哀求杜瓦先生：让她与爱人阿芒断绝关系，就等于要她的命。可杜瓦先生毫不退让，玛格丽特只好做出牺牲，向杜瓦先生起誓与阿芒绝交。
玛格丽特非常悲伤地给爱人写了绝交信，返回巴黎恢复昔日交际花的荒唐生活。她接受了瓦尔维勒男爵的追求，男爵帮她还清了所有债务，并赎回了首饰和马车。阿芒收到绝交信后怀着痛苦的心情随父亲回到家乡。
阿芒仍深深地思恋着玛格丽特，他又失魂落魄地来到巴黎。
他要报复爱人的“背叛”，他找到了茶花女，处处让她难堪，骂她是无情无义、没良心的娼妇，把爱情当作商品交易。玛格丽特面对爱人的误会，伤心地劝他忘了自己，永不再见。阿芒却要她一同逃离巴黎的欢场，逃到没人认识他们的地方，紧紧守着他们的爱情。玛格丽特说她已经起过誓，她不能那样做；阿芒误以为她和男爵曾海誓山盟，便气愤地推倒玛格丽特，把一叠钞票扔在她身上羞辱她，转身离去。玛格丽特深受刺激，大叫一声，昏倒在地。
玛格丽特身心俱疲，一病不起。男爵与阿芒决斗受了伤，阿芒离开了法国。
圣诞节快到了，玛格丽特的病情日疴，脸色苍白，无人探望，倍感孤寂。杜瓦先生来信感谢她信守誓言，已写信把真相告诉了阿芒，现在玛格丽特唯一的希望就是能再见爱人一面。
临死前，茶花女的债主们纷纷上门，催逼还债。债务法庭执行官奉命查封了她的全部财产，只等她死后就拍卖还债。弥留之际，玛格丽特不断地呼喊着爱人的名字，“眼里淌下无声的眼泪”，她最终也没能再见爱人一面。
玛格丽特死后只有一个好心的邻居米利将她入殓。阿芒重回巴黎后，米利把茶花女的一本日记交给了他。至此，阿芒才知道了她高尚的心灵。日记中写道：“除了你的侮辱是你始终爱我的证据外，我似乎觉得你越是折磨我，等到你知道真相的那一天，我在你眼中也就会显得越加崇高。”
阿芒怀着无限的悔恨与惆怅，为爱人玛格丽特迁坟安葬，并在她的坟前摆满了白茶花。
其他相关作品
光绪二十三年（1897年），林纾翻译与王寿昌合译小仲马《巴黎茶花女遗事》，光绪二十五年一月在福州由畏庐刊行。是中国介绍西洋小说的第一部，一时风行全国。
歌剧《茶花女》
著名作曲家威尔第根据小仲马的这部小说改编的歌剧《茶花女》（La traviata）
好莱坞电影
好莱坞1936年根据该小说改编成电影《茶花女》（Camille）
电影《红磨坊》（Moulin Rouge!）（2001）：其中男女主人公的爱情情节——相恋——误解——消除误解——女主角病逝——，取材于小仲马的这部小说。
Ⅵ 茶花女用英语怎么说
《茶花女》(中文袭)
《The Lady of the Camellias》(英文)
《La dame aux Camélias》 (法文)
《茶花女》是法国亚历山大·仲马（Alexandre Dumas，1824年7月27日-1895年11月27日）的代表作，他为了与同为作家的父亲作区别，多称小仲马（Dumas, fils）。他本身是法国剧作家、小说家。《茶花女》是小仲马的代表作。
Ⅶ 求《茶花女》的英文简介和内容介绍
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》是法国亚历山大·仲马（Alexandre Dumas，年7月27日-1895年11月27日）的代表作，他为了与同为作家的父亲作区别，多称小仲马（Dumas, fils）。他本身是法国剧作家、小说家。《茶花女》是小仲马的代表作。 《茶花女》（La traviata）亦是朱塞佩·威尔第（Giuseppe Verdi）作曲的四幕歌剧。意大利文剧本由皮亚威（Francesco Maria Piave）编写，改编自亚历山大·仲马於1848年出版的小说《茶花女》（The Lady of the Camellias，La dame aux Camélias）。歌剧於1853年3月6日在威尼斯凤凰歌剧院（Teatro la Fenice）首演。作品名称「La traviata」解作「流浪的妇人」，或「失落的人」。 故事的原著小说，亦被改拍成电影《茶花女》（Camille）（1936）。《情陷红磨坊》（Moulin Rouge!）（2001）亦是以茶花女作蓝本改编。
剧本简介
剧本。法国小仲马作于1848年。巴黎名妓玛格丽特为青年阿尔芒的真挚爱情所感动，毅然离开社交生活，与阿尔芒同居乡间。阿尔芒之父责备玛格丽特毁了儿子的前程，玛格丽特被迫返回巴黎重操旧业。阿尔芒盛怒之下，在社交场合当众羞辱她。玛格丽特一病不起，含恨而死。阿尔芒读了玛格丽特的遗书，方知真相，追悔莫及。
作者简介
小仲马（1824~1895），19 世纪法国著名小说家、戏剧家。他的父亲是以多产闻名于世的杰出作家大仲马。在大仲马奢侈豪华而又飘浮不定的生活影响下，小仲马最初“觉得用功和游戏都索然寡味”。20岁时，他就结识了一些有夫之妇，过着纸醉金边的生活。另一方面，小仲马就热切地期望着自己也能像父亲一样，扬名于文坛。于是，他也开始从现实中取材，从妇女、婚姻等问题中寻找创作的灵感。
剧情详介
玛格丽特原来是个贫苦的乡下姑娘，来到巴黎后，开始了卖笑生涯。由于生得花容月貌，巴黎的贵族公子争相追逐，成了红极一时的“社交明星”。她随身的装扮总是少不了一束茶花，人称“茶花女”。
茶花女得了肺病，在接受矿泉治疗时，疗养院里有位贵族小姐，身材、长相和玛格丽特差不多，只是肺病已到了第三期，不久便死了。小姐的父亲摩里阿龙公爵在偶然发现玛格丽特很像他女儿，便收她做了干女儿。玛格丽特说出了自己的身世，公爵答应只要她能改变自己过去的生活，便负担她的全部日常费用。但玛格丽特不能完全做到，公爵便将钱减少了一半，玛格丽特入不敷出，到现在已欠下几万法郎的债务。
一天晚上10多钟，玛格丽特回来后，一群客人来访。邻居普律当丝带来两个青年，其中一个是税务局长迪瓦尔先生的儿子阿尔芒·迪瓦尔，他疯狂地爱着茶花女。
一年前，玛格丽特生病期间，阿尔芒每天跑来打听病情，却不肯留下自己的姓名。普律当丝向玛格丽特讲了阿尔芒的一片痴情，她很感动。玛格丽特和朋友们跳舞时，病情突然发作，阿尔芒非常关切地劝她不要这样残害自己，并向玛格丽特表白自己的爱情。他告诉茶花女，他现在还珍藏着她六个月前丢掉的纽扣。玛格丽特原已淡薄的心灵再次动了真情，她送给阿尔芒一朵茶花，以心相许。
阿尔芒真挚的爱情激发了玛格丽特对生活的热望，她决心摆脱百无聊赖的巴黎生活，和阿尔芒到乡下住一段时间。她准备独自一人筹划一笔钱，就请阿尔芒离开她一晚上。阿尔芒出去找玛格丽特时，恰巧碰上玛格丽特过去的情人，顿生嫉妒。他给玛格丽特写了一封措辞激烈的信，说他不愿意成为别人取笑的对象，他将离开巴黎。
但他并没有走，玛格丽特是他整个希望和生命，他跪着请玛格丽特原谅他，玛格丽特对阿尔芒倾述“你是我在烦乱的孤寂生活中所呼唤的一个人”。
经过努力，玛格丽特和阿尔芒在巴黎郊外租把一间房子。公爵知道后，断绝了玛格丽特的经济来源。她背着阿尔芒，典当了自己的金银首饰和车马来支付生活费用。阿尔芒了解后，决定把母亲留给他的一笔遗产转让，以还清玛格丽特所欠下的债务。经纪人要他去签字，他离开玛格丽特去巴黎。
那封信原来是阿尔芒的父亲迪瓦尔先生写的，他想骗阿尔芒离开，然后去找玛格丽特。告诉玛格丽特，他的女儿爱上一个体面的少年，那家打听到阿尔芒和玛格丽特的关系后表示：如果阿尔芒不和玛格丽特断绝关系，就要退婚。玛格丽特痛苦地哀求迪瓦尔先生，如果要让她与阿尔芒断绝关系，就等于要她的命，可迪瓦尔先生毫不退让。为阿尔芒和他的家庭，她只好作出牺牲，发誓与阿尔芒绝交。
玛格丽特非常悲伤地给阿尔芒写了封绝交信，然后回到巴黎，又开始了昔日的荒唐的生活。她接受了瓦尔维勒男爵的追求，他帮助她还清了一切债务，又赎回了首饰和马车。阿尔芒也怀着痛苦的心情和父亲回到家乡。
阿尔芒禁仍深深地怀念着玛格丽特，他又失魂落魄地来到巴黎。他决心报复玛格丽特的“背叛”。他找到了玛格丽特，处处给她难堪。骂她是没有良心、无情无义的娼妇，把爱情作为商品出卖。玛格丽特面对阿尔芒的误会，伤心地劝他忘了自己，永远不要再见面。阿尔芒却要她与自己一同逃离巴黎，逃到没人认识他们的地方，紧紧守着他们的爱情。玛格丽特说她不能那样，因为她已经起过誓，阿尔芒误以为她和男爵有过海誓山盟，便气愤地给玛格丽特写信侮辱她，并寄去了一叠钞票 玛格丽特受了这场刺激，一病不起。新年快到了，玛格丽特的病情更严重了，脸色苍白，没有一个人来探望她，她感到格外孤寂。迪瓦尔先生来信告诉她，他感谢玛格丽特信守诺言，已写信把事情的真象告诉了阿尔芒，现在玛格丽特唯一的希望就是再次见到阿尔芒。
临死前，债主们都来了，带着借据，逼她还债。执行官奉命来执行判决，查封了她的全部财产，只等她死后就进行拍卖。弥留之际，她不断地呼喊着阿尔芒的名字，“从她的睛里流出了无声的眼泪”。她始终没有再见到她心爱的人。 死后只有一个好心的邻居米利为她入殓。当阿尔芒重回到巴黎时，她把玛格丽特的一本日记交给了她。从日记中，阿尔芒才知道了她的高尚心灵。“除了你的侮辱是你始终爱我的证据外，我似乎觉得你越是折磨我，等到你知道真相的那一天，我在你眼中也就会显得越加崇高。”
阿尔芒怀着无限的悔恨与惆怅，专门为玛格丽特迁坟安葬，并在她的坟前摆满了白色的茶花。
Ⅷ 需要《茶花女》的英文简介
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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