茶花女英文摘抄
Ⅰ 茶花女的50個經典的英文句子
羅切斯特：Jane.簡。
簡：Do you think, because I am poor,obscure,plain,and little,I am soulless and heartless?You think wrong!-I have as much soul as you-and full as much heart!And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth,I should have made it as hard for you to leave me,as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom,conventionalities,nor even of mortal flesh:it is my spirit that addresses your spirit;just as if both had passed through the grave,and we stood at God』s feet,equal-as we are!
[譯文]
你以為我窮，低微，不漂亮，我就沒有靈魂沒有心嗎？你想錯了! 我和你一樣有靈魂，有一顆完整的心！要是上帝賜予我一點姿色和充足的財富，我會使你難以離開我就如同我現在難以離開你一樣，我現在不是依據習俗、常規，甚至也不是通過血肉之軀同你說話，而是我的靈魂同你的靈魂在對話，就彷彿我們兩人穿過墳墓，站在上帝腳下，彼此平等—— 本來就如此！」
簡：Let me go, sir.讓我走，先生。
羅切斯特：I love you. I love you!我愛你。我愛你！
簡：No, don''t make me foolish.別，別讓我干傻事。
羅切斯特：Foolish? I need you. What''s Blanch to me? I know what I am to her. Money to manure her father''s land with. Marry me, Jane. Say you marry me.傻事？我需要你，布蘭奇(英格拉姆小姐)有什麼？我知道我對她意味著什麼，是使她父親的土地變得肥沃的金錢。嫁給我，簡。說你嫁給我。
簡：You mean it?你是說真的？
羅切斯特：You torture me with your doubts.Say yes,say yes(He takes hersintoshis arm and kisser her.)God forgive me.And let no men meddle with me.She is mine.Mine.你的懷疑折磨著我，答應吧，答應吧。(他把她摟在懷里，吻她。)上帝饒恕我，別讓任何人干涉我，她是我的，是我的。
After Jane finds out Mr. Rochester has an insane wife. 簡發現羅切斯特先生有個精神失常的妻子之後。
羅切斯特：So come out at last. You shut yourself in your room and grieve alone. Not one word of reproach.Nothing.Is that to be my punishment? I didn''t mean to wound you like this. Do you believe that?I wouldn''t hurt you not for the world.What was I to do? Confess everything I might as well have lost my life.總算出來了。你把自己關在房間里一個人傷心。一句責難的話也沒有。什麼都沒有。這就是對我的懲罰？我不是有心要這樣傷你，你相信嗎？我無論如何也不會傷害你，我怎麼辦？都對你說了我就會失去你，那我還不如去死。
簡：You have lost me, Edward.And I''ve lost you.你已經失去我了，愛德華。我也失去了您。
羅切斯特：Why did you say that to me? To punish me a little longer? 為什麼跟我說這些？繼續懲罰我嗎？
簡，Jane, I''ve been though! For the first time I have found what I can truly love. Don''t take if away from me.我已經受夠了！我生平第一次找到我真正的愛，你不要把她拿走。
簡：I must leave you.我必須離開您。
【羅切斯特求婚】
羅切斯特先生：
Jane,Jane,
簡，簡，
strange,
真奇怪，
It's almost 。。。.
這好象是上天安排的，
I love as my own flesh,
我覺得你好象和我心血相連，
簡:
Don't mock.
別開玩笑了。
羅切斯特先生：
What love have I for Branch?
我和布蘭奇完了。
Now I want you,
現在我要你，
Jane,quickly say,
簡，快說，
say "I'll marry you."
說：我要嫁給你。
say
說
簡：
I can't see your face,
我看不見你的臉。
羅切斯特先生：
say,quickly,
說，快說。
say:Edward,I'll marry you.
說：愛德華，我要嫁給你。
簡：
Edward,I'll marry you.
愛德華，我要嫁給你。
羅切斯特先生：
God ,pardon me.
上帝，原諒我。
Ⅱ 誰能幫我用英文寫一篇關於《茶花女》的300多字的簡介。
The lady of the camellias" is a French representative of Alexander Omas, tells the story of the eighteen forties, Alfonsina Plessi called a poor country girl, came to Paris, entered the vanity, into an upper class social star, started a career; and renamed Mary Duplessis. Meet the Dumas, so the two of them began a period Dating Love story. " La Traviata" is a classic of world literature, has been repeatedly onto the stage and screen.
《茶花女》是法國亞歷山大·小仲馬的代表作，講述在19世紀40年代，一個叫阿爾豐西娜·普萊西的貧苦鄉下姑娘來到巴黎，走進了名利場，成了上流社會的一個社交明星，開始了賣笑生涯；並改名為瑪麗·杜普萊西。結識了小仲馬，於是兩人開始了一段交往的愛情故事。《茶花女》是一部世界文學經典，曾被多次搬上舞台銀幕。
Ⅲ 茶花女中的好句子 要英文的 20個
我們這些受命運擺布的女人，我們有著怪誕的願望和匪夷所思的愛情。我們時而為了一樣東西，時而又為了另一樣東西以身相許。我委身於你比對任何男人都快，我可以向你起誓，這是為什麼？因為你看到我咯血時握住了我的手，因為你哭泣了，因為世間只有你真正想同情我
These women at the mercy of fate, we have a bizarre desire and strange love. We for one thing and one thing to another in order to fully. I am committed to you are faster than any man, I can swear to you, is this why? Because you see I was holding my hand when I haemoptysis, because you cry, because there is only you truly want to sympathize with me
然而我又看到了一些互相矛盾的現象，我還經常聽說瑪格麗特的愛情就像商品一樣，價格隨著季節不同而漲落。但在另一方面，我們又看到她堅決拒絕我們在她家裡遇到的那個年輕伯爵的要求，這件事跟她的名聲又怎麼聯系得起來呢？也許您會對我說因為她不喜歡他，何況她現在有公爵供養著，生活闊綽得很，如果她要再找一個情人，當然要找一個討她喜歡的男人。那麼為什麼她又不要那個既漂亮、聰明，又有錢的加斯東，而像是看上了第一次和她見面就讓她覺得十分可笑的我呢？
的確，有時候一分鍾里發生的巧事比整整一年的苦苦追求還管用。
在吃夜宵的那些人中間，唯有我看到她離席而感到不安。我跟在她後面激動得無法自持。我淚流滿面地吻著她的手。所有這一切，再加上在她生病的兩個月中，我每天去探聽她的病情，因而使她感到我確實與眾不同，也許她心裡在想，對一個用這樣的方式來表達愛情的人，她完全可以照常辦事，她過去已經干過那麼多次，這種事對她已經太無所謂了。
所有這些設想，您也看得出是完全可能的，但是，不管她同意的原因究竟是什麼，有一件事是肯定的，那就是她已經同意了。
我一直愛著瑪格麗特，現在我即將得到她，我不能再對她有什麼苛求了。但是我再對您重復一遍，盡管她是一個妓女，以前我總是以為——可能是我把她詩意化了——這次愛情是一次沒有希望的愛情，以致越是這個似乎希望即將得到滿足的時刻逐漸接近，我越是疑慮重重。
我失魂落魄，如痴似醉。一忽兒我覺得自己還不夠漂亮，不夠富有，不夠瀟灑，沒有資格佔有這樣一個女人；一忽兒，我為自己能佔有她而沾沾自喜，得意洋洋。接著我又擔心瑪格麗特是在逢場作戲，對我只不過是幾天的熱情，我預感到這種關系很快就會結束，並不會有好收場。我心裡在想，晚上還是不到她家裡去的好，而且要把我的疑慮寫信告訴她，然後離開她。接著，我又產生了無限的希望和無比的信心。我做了一些對未來的不可思議的美夢。我心裡想要給這位姑娘醫好肉體上和精神上的創傷，要和她一起白頭到老，她的愛情將比最純潔無瑕的愛情更使我幸福。
總之，我思緒紛繁，心亂如麻，實在無法向您描繪我當時腦子里的全部想法。天亮了，我迷迷糊糊地睡著了，這些念頭才在蒙矓中消逝了。
我一覺醒來已經是下午兩點鍾。天氣非常好，我覺得生活從來也沒有這樣美好，這樣幸福過。在我的腦海里清清楚楚地浮現出昨晚的景象，接著又甜滋滋地做起了今晚的美夢。我趕緊穿好衣服，我心滿意足，什麼美好的事情我都能去做。我的心因快樂和愛情不時地怦怦亂跳，一種甜蜜的激情使我忐忑不安，昨晚那些使我輾轉反側的念頭消失了。我看到的只是我的成功，想著的只是和瑪格麗特相會的時刻。
我在家裡再也呆不住了，我感到自己的房間似乎太小，怎麼也容納不下我的幸福，我需要向整個大自然傾訴衷腸。我到外面去了。
我走過昂坦街。瑪格麗特的馬車停在門口等她；我向香榭麗舍大街那邊走去。凡是我所遇到的行人，即使是我不認識的，我都感到親切！
愛情使一切變得多麼美好啊！
However I see some conflicting phenomenon, I had often heard of Margaret's love
is like a commodity, price fluctuation with the seasons. But on the other hand,
we see we in her home she resolutely refused to meet the requirements of the
young countess, this matter with her fame and how to link up? Perhaps you will
say to me because she doesn't like him, and she now has the ke support, very
rich life, if she wants to find another lover, of course, to find another one
for her love of men. So why she was not that both beautiful, intelligent, and
have money are Gaston, and like attracts and meet her for the first time I let
her feel very funny? Sometimes, indeed, in a minute the qiao happened than chase
also worked for a whole year. Among those who ate the food taken late at night,
but I saw her off and uneasy. I can't self sustaining behind her excitement. I
tearfully kissed
不知道可以不可以
望採納
Ⅳ 茶花女英文名言 這些女人生前考究的生活越是鬧得滿城風雨，她們死後也就越是無聲無息。她們就像某些星辰
不好意思我只看了茶花女的中文版
Ⅳ 求<茶花女>英文簡短讀後感,並附英文翻譯
The Lady of the Camellias is a classic book that written by famous author called Alexandre Dumas. The story set in Paris. There are two main characters in this book, Marguerite Gautier and Armand Duval. Marguerite is a pretty and young courtesan, or kept woman.A courtesan can't have the true love. But she falls love with a young man, Armand. She tries to get away from her questionable past and lives with Armand forever. But when Armand's father, Madame Duval knows that his son is falling love with a courtesan, he separates them. After Armand finds that his father lied him, he goes back to Paris, but Marguerite dies painfully and alone. I really enjoy this when i was reading it. Marguerite taught me a lot. To love someone is just let him or her be happy.Marguerite throws out the lord who can repays her all debts and lives with Armand.But when Armand's father reminds her that she is just a courtesan, she realized she can't be recognized in Armand's family, she will stain Armand's reputation. So she leaves him. Marguerite's love is unselfish. Her self-sacrifice saved Armand's reputation.
翻譯：那位女士是一個經典的茶花由一個著名作家寫的書叫做亞歷山大·。這個故事設置在巴黎。有兩個主要的人物在這本書中,瑪格麗特·戈蒂埃Duval和阿爾芒。瑪格麗特是一個美麗而年輕的女,或保持的女人。一個女不能擁有真正的愛情。但是她會愛上一個年輕男人,阿爾芒。她試圖擺脫她的可疑的過去和生活在阿爾芒,直到永遠。但當阿爾芒的父親,夫人Duval知道他的兒子是愛上了一個法院
Ⅵ 茶花女中的好句子要英文的20個
1)Eliza Doolittle: I sold flowers; I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me, I'm not fit to sell anything else.
杜利特爾：我賣花，但我不賣自己。現在你把我變成了淑女，我就不適合再賣任何其他東西了。
2)Anyone can spot an lrishman or a Yorkshireman by his brogue......but I can place a man within six miles.
3)I can place 'im within two miles in London. Sometimes within two streets.
4)Your native language is the language of Shakespeare and......Milton and the Bible. Don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.
5)'"The French don't care what they do actuall ''"As long as they pronounce it properly
6)In six months, I could pass her off as a chess at an Embassy Ball.
7)So here I am, a confirmed old bachelor and likely to remain so.
8)'"You'll be sorry But your tears will be too late
9)You wouldn't care if I was dead.I'm nothing to you.Not as much as them slippers.
10)I can do without anyone.I have my own soul!
Ⅶ 茶花女 主要內容 英文版
"The Lady of the Camellias" is a French tragic play based on Alexandre Dumas (the younger) 1848 novel by the same name, (it is sometimes referred to as "Camille"). The play was adapted for the theater by Dumas in 1852 and then for the opera by the composer Verdi's 'La Traviata' in 1853. The play became a favorite of audiences in the late 19th century.
The story is set in Paris ring the mid 1800's.
The lead heroine is Marguerite Gautier, a young beautiful courtesan who is a "kept woman" by counts and kes -- men of "Fashionable Society". She meets a young middle class lover Armand Duval who does the unpardonable thing of falling jealously in love with her and breaking all convention of what's expected between a courtesan and her admirers. He, of course, has no way of sustaining the standard of living which she is accustom.
In her fragile physical state (Marguerite has tuberculosis which we learn later) she moves to the country. There in her new house, a confrontation between the jealous Armand and her rich admirers and "benefactors" takes place. For the first time she sticks up for her lover -- making a life choice -- and they are left indignantly and alone.
Armand becomes depressed, his career seems doomed by the intolerance of French society, and knowing he will never be able to support Marguerite to the level she deserves. Unbeknownst to Armand, his father comes to plead for her to leave Armand to save both his son's reputation and that of his younger innocent sister -- whom is also tainted by the scandal. To prove her love, she agrees and leaves Armand. She returns to Paris where she despairingly throws herself back into her old lifestyle. Armand can't believe she's left and searches for her -- finally finding her in Paris in the arms of a new lover.
Time passes.
The two accidentally meet again in public. Marguerite is now in the company of a another beautiful courtesan and Armand begins "paying court" not with her but with her friend trying to strike back at Marguerite out of his own sense of hurt. Deathly ill, Marguerite visits Armand one last time to plead that he stop humiliating her, and they make love again -- both unable to deny the passion for each other. But Marguerite is haunted by guilt that she can only harm Armand and remembering her promise to his father -- she abandons him yet again as he sleeps.
Armand is incensed when he wakes. Finding Marguerite at a grand ball with all society around, he approaches her and hands her an envelope stuffed full of money – "Here! Payment for your services.」 She collapses as he walks out.
Abandoned by all her friends from the humiliation of Armand act, exposed publicly for what she really is, she dies penniless, painfully and alone -- cast off by all the men that used her.
Ⅷ 誰能幫我用英文寫一篇關於《茶花女》的300多字的簡介.
The lady of the camellias" is a French representative of Alexander Omas, tells the story of the eighteen forties, Alfonsina Plessi called a poor country girl, came to Paris, entered the vanity, into an upper class social star, started a career; and renamed Mary Duplessis. Meet the Dumas, so the two of them began a period Dating Love story. " La Traviata" is a classic of world literature, has been repeatedly onto the stage and screen.
《茶花女》是法國亞歷山大·小仲馬的代表作,講述在19世紀40年代,一個叫阿爾豐西娜·普萊西的貧苦鄉下姑娘來到巴黎,走進了名利場,成了上流社會的一個社交明星,開始了賣笑生涯；並改名為瑪麗·杜普萊西.結識了小仲馬,於是兩人開始了一段交往的愛情故事.《茶花女》是一部世界文學經典,曾被多次搬上舞台銀幕.
Ⅸ 150詞 敘述《茶花女》的主要內容 英文！~
La Dame aux camélias
[Francesco Maria Piave's libretto for La traviata is based upon the novel La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The following article traces the creation of that work. - NMR]
Alexandre Dumas, fils (son), born in Paris in 1824, is considered one of the foremost French dramatists of the nineteenth century. He was the illegitimate son of Alexandre Dumas, pére (father), the author of such novels as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.
Dumas was raised by his seamstress mother, Catherine Labay, until his father legally recognized him and assumed responsibility for his care. He attended college but left before receiving a degree. His illegitimacy caused him much unhappiness, both in private school and in college where he had few friends. At age seventeen, he moved in with his father, soon adopted his extravagant lifestyle and fell into debt. At the theatre one evening he first saw Marie Duplessis, already famous in the demimonde for her beauty and ability to get men to spend money on her. In an episode reflected in the opera, he was at her home one day when a coughing episode resulted in her spitting up blood. He urged her to change her way of life, but she replied, "I should die. This life of excitement is what keeps me alive". He offered the kind of life she would need to get well, and she finally agreed upon the condition. "You are not to spy on me, you are not to ask questions; I shall live exactly as I please without giving you any account of what I do." Thus began liaison, as a result of which Dumas was soon deeply in debt. Finally, he decided he must break with her and sent her the following letter.
My dear Marie, I am neither rich enough to love you as I should like, nor poor enough to be loved by you as you would like. There is nothing for us to do but forget — you a name which must mean very little to you; I a happiness which is no longer possible for me. Needless to tell you how miserable I am, since you know how I love you. So, this is goodbye. You are too tenderhearted not to understand the reason for this letter, too intelligent not to forgive me. A thousand souvenirs, — A.D.
He was on a trip to Spain and North Africa when he learned that she was gravely ill. He wrote to her, telling her he would return and ask for her forgiveness. But he waited too long. Duplessis died of tuberculosis in 1846. Her tragic death, along with bitterness over his illegitimacy, inspire Dumas to write the novel La Dame aux camélias (The Lady of the Camellias), portions of which are based on the Duplessis-Dumas affair. The name of the hero, Armand Duval, is a thin disguise for the author. Actually, Dumas tells the story in the third person as it was related to him by Armand Duval.
Dumas ends his novel with great admiration for his heroine: "I do not draw from this story the conclusion that all women like Marguerite are capable of doing all that she did...far from it; but I have discovered that one of them experienced a serious love in the course of her life, that she suffered for it, and that she died of it". In life, Dumas had tried to save her; in the novel he tried to redeem her memory by making her a much less self-centered and more sympathetic character. This is the Marie best known today in her manifestations as Violetta, Camille and Marguerite.
Dumas's greatest triumph came in 1852 with the proction of the stage adaptation of the play based on this novel. It faithfully portrayed the life of a Parisian courtesan and brought realism to the French stage. His father was at first skeptical of the proposal to convert the novel to a play but so moved by the result that he agreed to proce it. Censors feared audiences would recognize characters as admirers of Duplessis and create a scandal, delaying the opening for four years. A powerful member of the nobility, the Duc de Morny, half brother of Napoleón III, supported Dumas, and the play was a success. It enabled Duma to pay off his debts, many incurred with Marie. Henry James later observed, "Some tender young men and some coughing young women have only to speak the lines to give it a great place among the love stories of the world". Giuseppe Verdi apparently heartily agreed because he based his popular opera La traviata on Dumas's work.
The success of La traviata did not quiet the critics of Dumas's La Dame aux camélias. Some considered the story poor and clumsy and said it cast a very thin veil over the most immoral acts. The same critics said Marguerite Gautier (the name given to the Duplessis in the play) is totally corrupt and in real life would not have given up her lover until he had no money left to support her. One wrote, "We are bound to protest against the false halo which he has shed round Marquerite to render her attractive to the undiscriminating reader".
The critics and essayists have continued to evaluate Dumas's work. In a 1972 essay, Roger Clark wrote, "It is a society from which there can be no escape, in which the penalty for non-conformity is death". In 1874, Dumas was elected to the illustrious L'Academie Française, an act which also prompted severe criticism. It was said, "In comedies inherently vicious he pauses to preach virtue but with language shocking even to vice, yet he has been elected a member of the French Academy, constituted to be a tribunal of taste".
Clayton Hamilton attempted to explain why the play has held the stage for over a century. He believes that it is because every celebrated actress desires to play the role of Marguerite Gautier.
No woman has ever failed as Camille (the name later given the heroine in this country for no explicable reason). It is kept alive because it contains a very easy and celebrated part that every ambitious actress wants to play. La Dame aux camélias is brought back decade after decade, not by reason of the permanent importance of the suthor but by reason of recurrent aspirations of an ever-growing group of emotional actresses.
Among the famous actresses who have had successes as Camille were Eleanora Duse, Sarah Bernhardt and Greta Garbo, who starred in the 1937 film with Robert Taylor. Bernhardt first played the role in her thirties and continued it until a number of her 'farewell' tours when she was seventy and had only one leg.
Dumas had a relationship with a Russian princess in 1859. A daughter was born, but they did not acknowledge her as theirs until the princess was widowed. He continued to write material that shocked his contemporaries — eleven of his plays have illicit love as a theme — yet he was admitted to the Legion d'honneur. His wife died in 1895 and, after marrying his long-time mistress, he died that same year.
In 1929, the Chicago Civic Opera proced a new work, Camille by a young American composer, Hamilton Forrest, and commissioned by the famous soprano, Mary Garden. It was to be sung in French with a contemporary setting. After many delays, it finally opened to mixed reviews. Mary Garden was acclaimed, the music less so. One critic called it a masterpiece, another saw no future for it. It had a few more performances, and parts were broadcast on the radio; then it disappeared. Despite some recent attempts to revive interest in it, Camille is probably doomed to obscurity, while Verdi's La traviata continues to be one of the most popular and frequently performed operas.
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Ⅹ 求《茶花女》的英文簡介和內容介紹
La Dame aux camélias
[Francesco Maria Piave's libretto for La traviata is based upon the novel La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The following article traces the creation of that work. - NMR]
Alexandre Dumas, fils (son), born in Paris in 1824, is considered one of the foremost French dramatists of the nineteenth century. He was the illegitimate son of Alexandre Dumas, pére (father), the author of such novels as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.
Dumas was raised by his seamstress mother, Catherine Labay, until his father legally recognized him and assumed responsibility for his care. He attended college but left before receiving a degree. His illegitimacy caused him much unhappiness, both in private school and in college where he had few friends. At age seventeen, he moved in with his father, soon adopted his extravagant lifestyle and fell into debt. At the theatre one evening he first saw Marie Duplessis, already famous in the demimonde for her beauty and ability to get men to spend money on her. In an episode reflected in the opera, he was at her home one day when a coughing episode resulted in her spitting up blood. He urged her to change her way of life, but she replied, "I should die. This life of excitement is what keeps me alive". He offered the kind of life she would need to get well, and she finally agreed upon the condition. "You are not to spy on me, you are not to ask questions; I shall live exactly as I please without giving you any account of what I do." Thus began liaison, as a result of which Dumas was soon deeply in debt. Finally, he decided he must break with her and sent her the following letter.
My dear Marie, I am neither rich enough to love you as I should like, nor poor enough to be loved by you as you would like. There is nothing for us to do but forget — you a name which must mean very little to you; I a happiness which is no longer possible for me. Needless to tell you how miserable I am, since you know how I love you. So, this is goodbye. You are too tenderhearted not to understand the reason for this letter, too intelligent not to forgive me. A thousand souvenirs, — A.D.
He was on a trip to Spain and North Africa when he learned that she was gravely ill. He wrote to her, telling her he would return and ask for her forgiveness. But he waited too long. Duplessis died of tuberculosis in 1846. Her tragic death, along with bitterness over his illegitimacy, inspire Dumas to write the novel La Dame aux camélias (The Lady of the Camellias), portions of which are based on the Duplessis-Dumas affair. The name of the hero, Armand Duval, is a thin disguise for the author. Actually, Dumas tells the story in the third person as it was related to him by Armand Duval.
Dumas ends his novel with great admiration for his heroine: "I do not draw from this story the conclusion that all women like Marguerite are capable of doing all that she did...far from it; but I have discovered that one of them experienced a serious love in the course of her life, that she suffered for it, and that she died of it". In life, Dumas had tried to save her; in the novel he tried to redeem her memory by making her a much less self-centered and more sympathetic character. This is the Marie best known today in her manifestations as Violetta, Camille and Marguerite.
Dumas's greatest triumph came in 1852 with the proction of the stage adaptation of the play based on this novel. It faithfully portrayed the life of a Parisian courtesan and brought realism to the French stage. His father was at first skeptical of the proposal to convert the novel to a play but so moved by the result that he agreed to proce it. Censors feared audiences would recognize characters as admirers of Duplessis and create a scandal, delaying the opening for four years. A powerful member of the nobility, the Duc de Morny, half brother of Napoleón III, supported Dumas, and the play was a success. It enabled Duma to pay off his debts, many incurred with Marie. Henry James later observed, "Some tender young men and some coughing young women have only to speak the lines to give it a great place among the love stories of the world". Giuseppe Verdi apparently heartily agreed because he based his popular opera La traviata on Dumas's work.
The success of La traviata did not quiet the critics of Dumas's La Dame aux camélias. Some considered the story poor and clumsy and said it cast a very thin veil over the most immoral acts. The same critics said Marguerite Gautier (the name given to the Duplessis in the play) is totally corrupt and in real life would not have given up her lover until he had no money left to support her. One wrote, "We are bound to protest against the false halo which he has shed round Marquerite to render her attractive to the undiscriminating reader".
The critics and essayists have continued to evaluate Dumas's work. In a 1972 essay, Roger Clark wrote, "It is a society from which there can be no escape, in which the penalty for non-conformity is death". In 1874, Dumas was elected to the illustrious L'Academie Française, an act which also prompted severe criticism. It was said, "In comedies inherently vicious he pauses to preach virtue but with language shocking even to vice, yet he has been elected a member of the French Academy, constituted to be a tribunal of taste".
Clayton Hamilton attempted to explain why the play has held the stage for over a century. He believes that it is because every celebrated actress desires to play the role of Marguerite Gautier.
No woman has ever failed as Camille (the name later given the heroine in this country for no explicable reason). It is kept alive because it contains a very easy and celebrated part that every ambitious actress wants to play. La Dame aux camélias is brought back decade after decade, not by reason of the permanent importance of the suthor but by reason of recurrent aspirations of an ever-growing group of emotional actresses.
Among the famous actresses who have had successes as Camille were Eleanora Duse, Sarah Bernhardt and Greta Garbo, who starred in the 1937 film with Robert Taylor. Bernhardt first played the role in her thirties and continued it until a number of her 'farewell' tours when she was seventy and had only one leg.
Dumas had a relationship with a Russian princess in 1859. A daughter was born, but they did not acknowledge her as theirs until the princess was widowed. He continued to write material that shocked his contemporaries — eleven of his plays have illicit love as a theme — yet he was admitted to the Legion d'honneur. His wife died in 1895 and, after marrying his long-time mistress, he died that same year.
In 1929, the Chicago Civic Opera proced a new work, Camille by a young American composer, Hamilton Forrest, and commissioned by the famous soprano, Mary Garden. It was to be sung in French with a contemporary setting. After many delays, it finally opened to mixed reviews. Mary Garden was acclaimed, the music less so. One critic called it a masterpiece, another saw no future for it. It had a few more performances, and parts were broadcast on the radio; then it disappeared. Despite some recent attempts to revive interest in it, Camille is probably doomed to obscurity, while Verdi's La traviata continues to be one of the most popular and frequently performed operas.
茶花女》是法國亞歷山大·仲馬（Alexandre Dumas，年7月27日-1895年11月27日）的代表作，他為了與同為作家的父親作區別，多稱小仲馬（Dumas, fils）。他本身是法國劇作家、小說家。《茶花女》是小仲馬的代表作。 《茶花女》（La traviata）亦是朱塞佩·威爾第（Giuseppe Verdi）作曲的四幕歌劇。義大利文劇本由皮亞威（Francesco Maria Piave）編寫，改編自亞歷山大·仲馬於1848年出版的小說《茶花女》（The Lady of the Camellias，La dame aux Camélias）。歌劇於1853年3月6日在威尼斯鳳凰歌劇院（Teatro la Fenice）首演。作品名稱「La traviata」解作「流浪的婦人」，或「失落的人」。 故事的原著小說，亦被改拍成電影《茶花女》（Camille）（1936）。《情陷紅磨坊》（Moulin Rouge!）（2001）亦是以茶花女作藍本改編。
劇本簡介
劇本。法國小仲馬作於1848年。巴黎名妓瑪格麗特為青年阿爾芒的真摯愛情所感動，毅然離開社交生活，與阿爾芒同居鄉間。阿爾芒之父責備瑪格麗特毀了兒子的前程，瑪格麗特被迫返回巴黎重操舊業。阿爾芒盛怒之下，在社交場合當眾羞辱她。瑪格麗特一病不起，含恨而死。阿爾芒讀了瑪格麗特的遺書，方知真相，追悔莫及。
作者簡介
小仲馬（1824~1895），19 世紀法國著名小說家、戲劇家。他的父親是以多產聞名於世的傑出作家大仲馬。在大仲馬奢侈豪華而又飄浮不定的生活影響下，小仲馬最初「覺得用功和游戲都索然寡味」。20歲時，他就結識了一些有夫之婦，過著紙醉金邊的生活。另一方面，小仲馬就熱切地期望著自己也能像父親一樣，揚名於文壇。於是，他也開始從現實中取材，從婦女、婚姻等問題中尋找創作的靈感。
劇情詳介
瑪格麗特原來是個貧苦的鄉下姑娘，來到巴黎後，開始了賣笑生涯。由於生得花容月貌，巴黎的貴族公子爭相追逐，成了紅極一時的「社交明星」。她隨身的裝扮總是少不了一束茶花，人稱「茶花女」。
茶花女得了肺病，在接受礦泉治療時，療養院里有位貴族小姐，身材、長相和瑪格麗特差不多，只是肺病已到了第三期，不久便死了。小姐的父親摩里阿龍公爵在偶然發現瑪格麗特很像他女兒，便收她做了乾女兒。瑪格麗特說出了自己的身世，公爵答應只要她能改變自己過去的生活，便負擔她的全部日常費用。但瑪格麗特不能完全做到，公爵便將錢減少了一半，瑪格麗特入不敷出，到現在已欠下幾萬法郎的債務。
一天晚上10多鍾，瑪格麗特回來後，一群客人來訪。鄰居普律當絲帶來兩個青年，其中一個是稅務局長迪瓦爾先生的兒子阿爾芒·迪瓦爾，他瘋狂地愛著茶花女。
一年前，瑪格麗特生病期間，阿爾芒每天跑來打聽病情，卻不肯留下自己的姓名。普律當絲向瑪格麗特講了阿爾芒的一片痴情，她很感動。瑪格麗特和朋友們跳舞時，病情突然發作，阿爾芒非常關切地勸她不要這樣殘害自己，並向瑪格麗特表白自己的愛情。他告訴茶花女，他現在還珍藏著她六個月前丟掉的紐扣。瑪格麗特原已淡薄的心靈再次動了真情，她送給阿爾芒一朵茶花，以心相許。
阿爾芒真摯的愛情激發了瑪格麗特對生活的熱望，她決心擺脫百無聊賴的巴黎生活，和阿爾芒到鄉下住一段時間。她准備獨自一人籌劃一筆錢，就請阿爾芒離開她一晚上。阿爾芒出去找瑪格麗特時，恰巧碰上瑪格麗特過去的情人，頓生嫉妒。他給瑪格麗特寫了一封措辭激烈的信，說他不願意成為別人取笑的對象，他將離開巴黎。
但他並沒有走，瑪格麗特是他整個希望和生命，他跪著請瑪格麗特原諒他，瑪格麗特對阿爾芒傾述「你是我在煩亂的孤寂生活中所呼喚的一個人」。
經過努力，瑪格麗特和阿爾芒在巴黎郊外租把一間房子。公爵知道後，斷絕了瑪格麗特的經濟來源。她背著阿爾芒，典當了自己的金銀首飾和車馬來支付生活費用。阿爾芒了解後，決定把母親留給他的一筆遺產轉讓，以還清瑪格麗特所欠下的債務。經紀人要他去簽字，他離開瑪格麗特去巴黎。
那封信原來是阿爾芒的父親迪瓦爾先生寫的，他想騙阿爾芒離開，然後去找瑪格麗特。告訴瑪格麗特，他的女兒愛上一個體面的少年，那家打聽到阿爾芒和瑪格麗特的關系後表示：如果阿爾芒不和瑪格麗特斷絕關系，就要退婚。瑪格麗特痛苦地哀求迪瓦爾先生，如果要讓她與阿爾芒斷絕關系，就等於要她的命，可迪瓦爾先生毫不退讓。為阿爾芒和他的家庭，她只好作出犧牲，發誓與阿爾芒絕交。
瑪格麗特非常悲傷地給阿爾芒寫了封絕交信，然後回到巴黎，又開始了昔日的荒唐的生活。她接受了瓦爾維勒男爵的追求，他幫助她還清了一切債務，又贖回了首飾和馬車。阿爾芒也懷著痛苦的心情和父親回到家鄉。
阿爾芒禁仍深深地懷念著瑪格麗特，他又失魂落魄地來到巴黎。他決心報復瑪格麗特的「背叛」。他找到了瑪格麗特，處處給她難堪。罵她是沒有良心、無情無義的娼婦，把愛情作為商品出賣。瑪格麗特面對阿爾芒的誤會，傷心地勸他忘了自己，永遠不要再見面。阿爾芒卻要她與自己一同逃離巴黎，逃到沒人認識他們的地方，緊緊守著他們的愛情。瑪格麗特說她不能那樣，因為她已經起過誓，阿爾芒誤以為她和男爵有過海誓山盟，便氣憤地給瑪格麗特寫信侮辱她，並寄去了一疊鈔票 瑪格麗特受了這場刺激，一病不起。新年快到了，瑪格麗特的病情更嚴重了，臉色蒼白，沒有一個人來探望她，她感到格外孤寂。迪瓦爾先生來信告訴她，他感謝瑪格麗特信守諾言，已寫信把事情的真象告訴了阿爾芒，現在瑪格麗特唯一的希望就是再次見到阿爾芒。
臨死前，債主們都來了，帶著借據，逼她還債。執行官奉命來執行判決，查封了她的全部財產，只等她死後就進行拍賣。彌留之際，她不斷地呼喊著阿爾芒的名字，「從她的睛里流出了無聲的眼淚」。她始終沒有再見到她心愛的人。 死後只有一個好心的鄰居米利為她入殮。當阿爾芒重回到巴黎時，她把瑪格麗特的一本日記交給了她。從日記中，阿爾芒才知道了她的高尚心靈。「除了你的侮辱是你始終愛我的證據外，我似乎覺得你越是折磨我，等到你知道真相的那一天，我在你眼中也就會顯得越加崇高。」
阿爾芒懷著無限的悔恨與惆悵，專門為瑪格麗特遷墳安葬，並在她的墳前擺滿了白色的茶花。