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Date premiered. 30 September 1908. (1908-09-30) The Blue Bird (French: L'Oiseau bleu) is a 1908 play by Belgian playwright and poet Maurice Maeterlinck. It premiered on 30 September 1908 at Konstantin Stanislavski 's Moscow Art Theatre, and was presented on Broadway in 1910. The play has been adapted for several films and a TV series.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
- 1908
The Blue Bird, play for children by Maurice Maeterlinck, published as L’Oiseau bleu in 1908. In a fairy-tale-like setting, Tyltyl and Mytyl, the son and daughter of a poor woodcutter, are sent out by the Fairy Bérylune to search the world for the Blue Bird of Happiness.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jul 2, 2019 · The Blue Bird was a philosophical play written by Maurice Maeterlinck, who would win the Nobel Prize for Literature the following year for it and other works. His Pelléas and Mélisande is better known today, as productions of the Debussy opera continue to enliven the stage.
- Ellen Hampton
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck [1] [a] (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count/Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, [6] was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French.
The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts, by Maurice Maeterlinck This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
The most pervasive theme in Maurice Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird is that happiness is achievable but must be actively pursued. The children set out on a quest to find the...
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Published in 1908, The Blue Bird is a six-act play by Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck, which follows a pair of siblings on an enchanted journey one night as their parents sleep. Act One....
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