The Lady of the Camellias

Lady of the Camellias, The (La Dame aux camélias)

    Alternative Title: Camille

    Author: Alexandre Dumas fils

    First Performance: 1852, Paris

    Published: 1852

    First English Translation: 1930

    Genre: Trag. in 5 acts; French prose

    Setting: Paris and a house in the country, 1840s

    Cast: 14m, 6f, extras

Marguerite Gautier, witty, generous, and flirtatious, whose favourite flower is the camellia, receives a wide variety of friends in her salon. Despite having had many lovers, she has never committed herself to one man. But the young Armand Duval, whose shyness conflicts with his passion, wins her love, and they begin a life of bliss in a house in the country. However, Armand's father, whose daughter's impending marriage might be endangered by Armand's...

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