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Written in 1847, while Dumas was at the height of his powers, this play recounts the events leading up to the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre of the French Huguenots--and the subsequent death of King Charles IX. The playwright focuses on the people inadvertently caught up in the slaughter--which, once started, cannot be repressed. By following the fate of two nobles, the Catholic Count Coconnas and the Huguenot Count de la Mole, and linking their stories to Queen Marguerite (called Margot), wife in name only to the Huguenot King of Navarre (the future King Henry IV of France), Dumas reveals the terror and duplicity that the massacre incurred even at the highest levels of society--including the royal family. Despite its length, the story moves quickly and with great force. One of Dumas's best historical narratives!
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ALEXANDRE DUMAS (1802-1870), French novelist and playwright, was born the son of an innkeeper's daughter and one of Napoleon's generals. He moved to Paris in 1823 to make his fortune in the theater, and at twenty-eight he was one of the leading literary figures of his day. His complete works were eventually to fill over three hundred volumes. His novels remain as popular today as when he wrote them.
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''Stirring adventures, conspiracies, and feasts . . . The same cult of passion and energy that marks Dumas's The Three Musketeers and other novels also vividly characterizes Queen Margot.'' --Library Journal
''[Vance's] performance in no small way makes this recording a delight. His voice is extremely versatile, as shown by his ability to give all the main players in this drama distinct accents that are rendered consistently. These accents bring out the character of each person, with Catherine de Medici an especially evil and manipulative shrew. One hopes that if Dumas wrote a sequel to Queen Margot that Blackstone and [Vance] will record it.'' --AudioFile
''[Vance's] performance in no small way makes this recording a delight. His voice is extremely versatile, as shown by his ability to give all the main players in this drama distinct accents that are rendered consistently. These accents bring out the character of each person, with Catherine de Medici an especially evil and manipulative shrew. One hopes that if Dumas wrote a sequel to Queen Margot that Blackstone and [Vance] will record it.'' --AudioFile
''[Vance's] performance in no small way makes this recording a delight. His voice is extremely versatile, as shown by his ability to give all the main players in this drama distinct accents that are rendered consistently. These accents bring out the character of each person, with Catherine de Medici an especially evil and manipulative shrew. One hopes that if Dumas wrote a sequel to Queen Margot that Blackstone and [Vance] will record it.'' --AudioFile
''[Vance's] performance in no small way makes this recording a delight. His voice is extremely versatile, as shown by his ability to give all the main players in this drama distinct accents that are rendered consistently. These accents bring out the character of each person, with Catherine de Medici an especially evil and manipulative shrew. One hopes that if Dumas wrote a sequel to Queen Margot that Blackstone and [Vance] will record it.'' --AudioFile
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