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    The Princess of Bagdad - A Play in Three Acts
    The Princess of Bagdad - A Play in Three Acts
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    The Princess of Bagdad - A Play in Three Acts

    By Alexandre Dumas

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    This antiquarian book contains Alexandre Dumas's 1881 play "The Princess of Bagdad - A Play in Three Acts". Set in Baghdad and taking inspiration from "The Arabian Nights", this intelligent and highly-entertaining play deals with themes of forbidden love and infidelity, expertly interwoven with the humour and tragedy Dumas is famous for. A must-read for fans of Dumas's seminal work, "The Princess of Bagdad - A Play in Three Acts" would make for a worthy addition to any collection. Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) was a famous French writer. He is best remembered for his exciting romantic sagas, including "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo". Despite making a great deal of money from his writing, Dumas was almost perpetually penniless thanks to his extravagant lifestyle. His novels have been translated into nearly a hundred different languages, and have inspired over 200 motion pictures. We are republishing this antiquarian book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWhite Press
    Release dateJun 29, 2015
    ISBN9781473376243
    The Princess of Bagdad - A Play in Three Acts
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    Alexandre Dumas

    Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) was one of the literary lights of France during the Romantic Revolution, his complete works eventually filling over three hundred volumes. George Bernard Shaw described him as "one of the best storytellers…that ever lived." The Man in the Iron Mask and The Three Musketeers are available from Brilliance Audio.

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      The Princess of Bagdad - A Play in Three Acts - Alexandre Dumas

      THE PRINCESS OF BAGDAD

      A Play In Three Acts

      by

      Alexandre Dumas

      Of the Académie Française.

      (Translated from the French.)

      Copyright © 2012 Read Books Ltd.

      This book is copyright and may not be

      reproduced or copied in any way without

      the express permission of the publisher in writing

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      Contents

      Alexandre Dumas

      DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.

      THE PRINCESS OF BAGDAD.

      ACT I.

      Scene I.

      Scene II.

      Scene III.

      Scene IV.

      Scene V.

      ACT II.

      Scene I.

      Scene II.

      Scene III.

      ACT III.

      Scene I.

      Scene II.

      Scene III.

      Scene IV.

      Scene V.

      Alexandre Dumas

      Alexandre Dumas was born in Villers-Cotterêts, France in 1802. His parents were poor, but their heritage and good reputation – Alexandre’s father had been a general in Napoleon’s army – provided Alexandre with opportunities for good employment. In 1822, Dumas moved to Paris to work for future king Louis Philippe I in the Palais Royal. It was here that he began to write for magazines and the theatre.

      In 1829 and 1830 respectively, Dumas produced the plays Henry III and His Court and Christine, both of which met with critical acclaim and financial success. As a result, he was able to commit himself full-time to writing. Despite the turbulent economic times which followed the Revolution of 1830, Dumas turned out to have something of an entrepreneurial streak, and did well for himself in this decade. He founded a production studio that turned out hundreds of stories under his creative direction, and began to produce serialised novels for newspapers which were widely read by the French public. It was over the next two decades, as a now famous and much loved author of romantic and adventuring sagas, that Dumas produced his best-known works – the D’Artagnan romances, including The Three Musketeers, in 1844, and The Count of Monte Cristo, in 1846.

      Dumas made a lot of money from his writing, but he was almost constantly penniless as a result of his extravagant lifestyle and love of women. In 1851 he fled his creditors to Belgium, and then Russia, and then Italy, not returning to Paris until 1864. Dumas died in Puys, France, in 1870, at the age of 68. He is now enshrined in the Panthéon of Paris alongside fellow authors Victor Hugo and Emile Zola. Since his death, his fiction has been translated into almost a hundred languages, and has formed the basis for more than 200 motion pictures.

      DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.

      JOHN DE HUN.

      NOURVADY.

      GODLER.

      RICHARD.

      TRÉVELÉ.

      A Commissary of Police.

      LIONNETTE.

      RAOUL DE HUN (six years).

      A Lady’s-Maid.

      A Nurse.

      ANTHONY.

      A Footman.

      A Secretary of the Commissary of Police.

      Two Agents.

      THE PRINCESS OF BAGDAD.

      _____________

      In Paris.

      _____________

      ACT I.

      A large and very elegant drawing-room, looking out on a garden. French window with balcony at the lower extremity to the right. To the left a conservatory. To the right a door opening into the apartment of Lionnette. To the left a door opening into the apartment of John.

      Scene I.

      RICHARD, The Footman; afterwards JOHN and LIONNETTE.

      The Footman (to Richard, who waits sitting near a table, turning over some papers.)

      The Count de Hun is here.

      John enters; the Footman goes out.

      John.

      I am quite at your service, Master Richard, but I regret that you have inconvenienced yourself to come.

      Richard.

      Not at all; I live about two steps from here, and every evening, after my dinner, I take a short walk. Only, I am in a frock-coat, and you have friends.

      John.

      Men only, some club friends. Lionnette is with them in the conservatory.

      Richard.

      Muster all the courage of which you are master.

      John.

      We are ruined?

      Richard.

      Yes.

      John.

      Poor Lionnette!

      Richard.

      Alas! It is a little her fault.

      John.

      It is the fault of her mother, who reared her in luxury and without order. It is my fault, too, who was not as rich as my love; who not only never knew how to refuse her anything, but who did not even allow her time to wish for it; who told her to buy whatever she might wish for.

      Richard.

      And who also gave her by power of attorney—serious imprudence!—the right of buying, selling, of disposing of her property, and, in consequence, of yours, as it seemed fit to her. You owe one million, a hundred and seven thousand, one hundred and twenty-seven francs, fifty-two centimes. When I say, you owe, that is a figure of speech; your wife owes. In that amount there are only thirty-eight thousand francs of your own personal debts, and for which personally you have to be responsible, as you were married under the system of separation of property.

      John.

      I authorised my wife to make debts, these debts then are mine. In other words, as she has no money, it is I who have to pay. What are my assets?

      Richard.

      There is this house in which we are, which is worth eight hundred thousand francs when one does not want to sell it, but which would be worth from five hundred and fifty to five hundred and eighty thousand, the moment one is obliged to part with it; it is mortgaged for four hundred and fifty thousand francs.... Then there are the horses, the furniture, the laces, the jewels....

      John.

      Very few jewels. A year ago Lionnette sold every jewel she had, with that heedlessness,

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