Madame Bovary: Breakfast with Emma Gustave Flaubert

Name: Madame Bovary: Breakfast with Emma By Gustave Flaubert
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Madame Bovary: Breakfast with Emma by Gustave Flaubert

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Flaubert's masterpiece about an infidelity with tragic consequences, dramatised for Shared Experience by the acclaimed novelist.

Madame Bovary: Breakfast with Emma Summary

Madame Bovary: Breakfast with Emma by Gustave Flaubert

Flaubert's masterpiece about an infidelity with tragic consequences, dramatised for Shared Experience by the acclaimed novelist, author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil.

Emma Bovary and her reviled husband are at breakfast on the morning of Emma's last day alive. As they bicker, scenes from Emma's past are called to mind and played out with all the passion for which Flaubert's novel is famous...

Fay Weldon's play Madame Bovary: Breakfast with Emma was first performed by Shared Experience Theatre Company on a UK tour in 2003, with performances at the Lyric Hammersmith in November 2003.

About Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert (12 December 18218 May 1880) was a French novelist, considered the preeminent exponent of the realist school of French literature and best known for his masterpiece, Madame Bovary (1857), a realistic portrayal of bourgeois life, which led to a trial on charges of the novel's alleged immorality. Fay Weldon (19312023) was an English author, essayist and playwright. Her novels include The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983). Her adaptation of Flaubert's Madame Bovary, subtitled Breakfast with Emma, was staged by Shared Experience in 2003.

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GOR002599584

ISBN 13

9781854597755

ISBN 10

1854597752

Title

Madame Bovary: Breakfast with Emma by Gustave Flaubert

Author

Gustave Flaubert

Series

NHB Modern Plays

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Nick Hern Books

Year published

2003-10-02

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