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    STUDIA DRAMATICA - Issue no. 2 / 2011  
         
  Article:   BAUDELAIRE’S THEATRICAL LABORATORY OR HOW THE DRUNKARD DID NOT INVENT THE EUROPEAN PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA / LE LABORATOIRE THÉÂTRAL DE BAUDELAIRE, OU COMMENT L’IVROGNE N’A PAS INVENTÉ LE DRAME PSYCHOLOGIQUE EUROPÉEN.

Authors:  IOAN POP-CURŞEU. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The present article offers some insights in Baudelaire’s creative laboratory, in search for the reason why the greatest poet of the 19th century could not achieve any of his theatrical dreams. The chosen example is a very interesting project called L’Ivrogne (The Drunkard), a psychological drama, which – if realised – would have been a masterpiece of the genre, and a forerunner of Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg’s plays. L’Ivrogne associates a fine study of the characters, with some melodramatic effects and with the story of a passionate murder, taking as a starting point one of the most cynical poems in Les Fleurs du mal, Le Vin de l’assassin.

Keywords: Baudelaire, L’Ivrogne, theatrical projects, psychological drama, drinking problems, creative failure. 		 
         
     
         
         
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