Pinto

work by Lemercier

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In Népomucène Lemercier
Pinto (1800), a historical comedy treating the Portuguese revolution of 1640, was original in attempting to divest historical events of poetic ornament and the high seriousness of tragedy, thus foreshadowing Eugène Scribe’s unheroic approach. This more experimental attitude was also shown in Christophe Colomb (1809),…
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