Sand, George
Sand, George(Amandine-Aurore Lucille Dupin, Baronne Dudevant), (1804–76),French novelist. She diverted herself with a miniature theatre at Nohant where she kept open house for friends, writing plays which were seldom successful when produced. Her personal interest in theatre was seconded by an impressive output of dramatic criticism, often coloured by the political upheaval surrounding the 1848 revolution. In her celebrated ‘Préface du théâtre’ (1860), George Sand appealed to contemporary dramatists to break with the vogue for expensive but banal realistic theatrical productions, criticizing their writers for neglecting the public's thirst for poetic distraction: instead she championed the alternative world of dream and illusion celebrated in romantic comedies such as Shakespeare's As You Like It. Sand further extolled Hamlet, finding the tragic and unruly prince a perfect exemplar of the Romantic hero.
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