PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Voždová, Marie
TI  - Marriage in the contemporary French comedy: Schmitt and De Vos
DP  - 2017 Jun 1
TA  - Romanica Olomucensia
PG  - 131--142
VI  - 29
IP  - 1
AID - 10.5507/ro.2017.010
IS  - 18034136
AB  - The paper deals with different variations on the subject of couples and marriage in contemporary comedy plays. First, the morphology of boulevard theatre genres is discussed: boulevard comedy, vaudeville and farce. Afterwards, two contemporary French playwrights are presented, together with an analysis of the specific depiction of the motifs of couples, marriage, and love triangles in their plays. The analysis includes Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt and his comedies The Guitrys (2013), Georges & Georges (2014), and Les Petites crimes conjugaux (2016) and Rémi De Vos and his play Projection privée (1998).