Alain-René Lesage

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Alain-René Lesage’s chief career, apart from the writing of novels, was as a playwright. While he was with the Comédie-Française, he penned two major plays, Crispin rival de son maître, 1707 (Neck or Nothing, 1766) and Turcaret: Comédie en cinq actes, 1709 (English translation, 1923). After these plays were written, Lesage quarreled with the company and commenced writing pieces, both singly and in collaboration with others, for the Théâtre de la Foire. The pieces written for the Théâtre de la Foire were chiefly farces,...

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