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Brieux

American  
[bree-œ] / briˈœ /

noun

  1. Eugène 1858–1932, French playwright, journalist, and editor.


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Soon he was up to his neck in the dramatists: Ibsen, Strindberg, Brieux, Sudermann, Galsworthy, Synge, Shaw.

From Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create by Lucien Price

Leading articles will contain learned off-hand allusions to Brieux, Brieux and Shaw will be compared and differentiated, and Brieux will be the most serious dramatist in France.

From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Arnold Bennett

Brieux is now not only an Academician, but one of the stars of the Français.

From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Arnold Bennett

It is of course true, as M. Brieux maintains in regard to the two endings of his early play, Blanchette,23 that sometimes more than one ending may be made plausible.

From Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker

Mr. Shaw has not yet been able to use the theatre in this way, and still less, Brieux.

From Personality in Literature by Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

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