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Tower, [La Tour de Nesle], or Marguerite de Bourgogne

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  2w, 13m, 1any gender (adult)

Alexandre Dumas, Charles Wood

The Tower, [La Tour de Nesle], or Marguerite de Bourgogne
by Alexandre Dumas (Pere), in a new version by Charles Wood

Dumas (Pére) was commissioned by Parisian theatre manager Harel to write The Tower in 1832, a tale of murder, sexual depravity and treachery among the French aristocracy - just what the public wanted. Popularly dubbed as 'anti-monarchist', it played …

Tower, [La Tour de Nesle], or Marguerite de Bourgogne

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Dumas (Pére) was commissioned by Parisian theatre manager Harel to write The Tower in 1832, a tale of murder, sexual depravity and treachery among the French aristocracy - just what the public wanted. Popularly dubbed as 'anti-monarchist', it played for 800 performances during a French revolution in the 1830s. Over 160 years later, in less turbulent times, lovers of swahbuckling romantic melodrama will not be disappointed. Contained in the volume The Tower and Ruy Blas.
  • Time Period Medieval (6th-14th c.)
  • Setting Various simple settings.

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Alexandre Dumas

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Charles Wood

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