茶花女的英文简介

1. 《茶花女》英文简介

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2. 茶花女英文版的创作背景

《茶花女》是法国作家亚历山大·小仲马 的著作，小仲马是大仲马与女裁缝卡特琳·拉贝（Marie-Catherine Labay）所生下的私生子。大仲马一生风流，成名后混迹于上流社会，将他们母子抛弃掉，直到小仲马七岁时，大仲马终于良心发现，从法律上承认了这个儿子。虽然大仲马负担了拉贝的生活费用，但是他始终没有承认拉贝是他的妻子，并且他也没有尽到一个父亲的责任，在当时贝拉希望可以由自己抚养小仲马长大，可是却被大仲马以法律手段强行的带到自己身边，当时的大仲马正和贝尔·克莱尔塞梅尔打得火热，于是又把七岁的小仲马送进了寄宿学校。
1842年小仲马遇见玛丽·杜普莱西，即后来《茶花女》中玛格丽特的原型，对她一见钟情，但是他对玛丽不肯退出上流声妓事业表示愤怒，写了绝交书。
1847年玛丽病逝于巴黎。小仲马悲痛万分，将这段故事写成小说《茶花女》，使他一举成名。
小仲马的剧作是法国戏剧由浪漫主义向现实主义过渡时期的产物，被改变为话剧的《茶花女》也被视为法国现实主义戏剧开端的标志。他的剧作不以情节的曲折离奇取胜，而以真切自然的情理感人，结构谨严，语言流畅，富有抒情意味。

3. 茶花女 主要内容 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.

4. 〈〈茶花女〉〉内容概要英文

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Margaret is a miss of destitute country, arriving at after Paris, starting work as a prostitute the career.The Because living HUA RONG2 YUE4 貌 , the the nobility childe of Paris vie with each other in pursue, the becoming red very a fit of" the the social intercourse star".She always attire along with necessary and a bunch of camellia, the person call" camellia woman".
The woman of the camellia got the tuberculosis, while accept the mineral spring treatment, there is a nobility young lady in the sanatorium, the shape, outlooking and Margaret is about, just on the tip of Issue 3 of tuberculosis, died soon and then.The The young lady's father 摩 in the 阿 dragon ke at discover that Margaret is like his daughter very much by chance, accept then she was the daughter of 乾 .Margaret spoke own life experience, the ke promise as long as she can change the life that oneself pass by, bearing the all of usual expenses then.But Margaret can't attain completely, the ke reced money then half, Margaret's income cannot cover outlay, have already owe to now several obligation of franc ten thousand.
ore than 10 clocks of an evening, after Margaret come back, a group of guests come to visit.The Neighbor the 勃 is the department to bring two youths, the an among thoses are tax administrations bureau chief the 杜 tile the Sir's son the the 阿 the long grass the · 杜 tile, his breeze wildly love the camellia woman.
he The One year ago, the the Margaret get sick period, the the the long grass of 阿 runs the pry condition everyday, but be not willing to leave own name.The Of 勃 was the department toward Margaret to speak the one 痴 feeling of the long grass of 阿 , she move.The Margaret and When the friends dance, the the condition goes into action suddenly, the the long grass of 阿 concerns the ground to advise her very much and the don't injure the the oneself thus, and vindicate own love toward Margaret.He tells the camellia the woman, he still collects as treasure the 纽 that she throw away six months ago to button up now.The Margaret the already weak thin mind moved the genuine feeling again at first, the she gives a camellia of long grass of 阿 , allowing mutually with the heart.
The The The love of the 阿 long grass earnestness stired up Margaret to the living aspirant, the the her decision gets away from the Parisian life of the the thoroughly bored, going to country to live a period of time with long grass of 阿 .The She prepares to plan and prepare a money a person alone, ask long grass of 阿 to leave her for a night.The When the long grass of 阿 go out, the meet with the lover whom Margaret pass by coincidentally, gives birth to envy.He wrote a letter of wording vehemence for Margaret, saying that he would not like to become the object that other people laugh at, he will leave Paris.
The The But he did not walk, the the Margaret is his whole hope and lifes, the the he kneels to ask Margaret to forgive him, the the Margaret confides to" the the you are a person who I call in the lonely life of the vexed confusion" to the long grass of 阿 .
he The Through effort, Margaret and long grass of 阿 at the Parisian effect rents to chase outside a house.After ke know, ruptured Margaret's economic source.The She carries the long grass of 阿 , pawning own gold and silver jewelry and traffics to pay the cost of living.After long grass of 阿 understand, decide to leave the mother to one of his inheritance to turn to let, to repay fully the next obligation that Margaret owe.The broker wants that he sign, he leaves Margaret to go to Paris.
The The That letter is the father of the long grass of 阿 the 杜 tile the Sir write of, the the he wants to cheat the the long grass the of the the 阿 to leave, then find Margaret.The Tell Margaret his daughter, the be in love with the youth that an indivial face, the that pry the means after the arrive the the relation between the long grass the of 阿 the and Margaret: the If on the bed terms the Margaret of the long grass the of 阿 the ruptures the relation, is to back the 婚 .The Margaret painfully entreat the 杜 tile Sir, the if to let her rupture the relation with long grass of 阿 , the be equal to want her life, can the 杜 tile the Sir yields nowise.For long grass of 阿 and his families, she has to make a sacrifice, swearing to break off friendship with long grass of 阿 .
The The Margaret writes for long grass of 阿 to seal to break off friendship the letter very grievously, the the then return to Paris, starting the in former days absurd life again.The She accepts the tile 尔维 勒 to pursue baronially, the he help she repaid fully the whole obligations, and then claimed pawned article the jewelry and wagons.The long grass of 阿 also keeps in mind the mood of pain and sufferings and father to return to the home town.
The The The long grass of 阿 forbids to still think of Margaret profoundly, he arrives at Paris frightenedly again.His decision makes reprisals Margaret's" betrayal".He found out Margaret, the everywhere give her embarrassed.The scold her is conscienceless and heartless to have no the prostitute of righteousness, being the merchandise to the love to betray.The The 玛 space 丽 faces the misconstruction of the long grass of 阿 , the feeling sad the ground to advise he forgot the oneself, never wanting to meet again.Long grass of 阿 but want her to escape Paris with oneself together, escape the nobody to know their place, stay by the side their love tightly and tightly.Margaret say that she can't so, because she has already taken an oath, the long grass of 阿 mistakes her to had the vows of eternal love with baron, getting angry with the ground to push over Margaret then, throwing a bill of 迭 in her body, turning round to leave.玛格丽特大叫一声，昏倒在地。
Margaret is stimulate by this, a disease does not rise.The The baron els with the 阿 long grass to be subjected to harm, the long grass of 阿 went abroad.The New Year's Day shall arrive soon, Margaret's condition is more serious, the facial expression is pale, having no a person to visit her, she feel particularly lonely.The 杜 tile the Sir sends a letter here to tell her, his thankful Margaret keeps the promise, having already written a letter to tell the true elephant of the affair long grass of 阿 , unique hope of Margaret is to see the long grass of 阿 again now.
n the article of death before, the creditorses all came, taking the I.O.U, forcing her repay loan.The executive officer receives order to carry out the verdict, confiscating and seal the all of property, only etc. she is clay-cold and then carry on the forced sale.The The While life still lingers, the the she shouts the name of the long grass of 阿 constantly," the the from her 睛 in run off breathed tears".She did not see again her lover always.
Clay-cold the neighbor who only have a good heart the rice benefit lays in coffin for her.The When the long grass of 阿 is heavy to return to Paris, she handed over to Margaret's a diary she.The From in the diary, the long grass of 阿 just knew her classic mind."In addition to your indignity is the proof that you love me always, I feel apparently you are to rment me more, wait until you know true facts that day, I also will seem to be more to add in your eyes lofty."
The The The long grass of 阿 keep in mind infinite of regretfuleply and disappointed, the the move the grave to bury for Margaret exclusively, and put before her grave full white camellia

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This novel what it describe is male host the love tragedy of the male long grass of arel and hostess male Margaret.

5. 需要《茶花女》的英文简介

La Dame aux camé

[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.

http://www.operapaedia.org/Opera.aspx?article=1166&id=4014

6. <茶花女>的英文名字是什么

1、英文名：复The Lady of the Camellias。
制2、作品简介
《茶花女》是法国著名作家亚历山大·小仲马的代表作。故事讲述了一个青年人与巴黎上流社会一位交际花曲折凄婉的爱情故事。作品通过一个妓女的爱情悲剧，揭露了法国七月王朝上流社会的糜烂生活。对贵族资产阶级的虚伪道德提出了血泪控诉。在法国文学史上，这是第一次把妓女作为主角的作品。
3、作者简介
小仲马，法国小说家，戏剧家。大仲马的私生子。7岁时大仲马才认其为子，但仍拒不认其母为妻。私生子的身世使小仲马在童年和少年时代受尽世人的讥诮。成年后痛感法国资本主义社会的淫靡之风造成许多像他们母子这样的被侮辱与被损害者，决心通过文学改变社会道德。他曾说：“任何文学，若不把完善道德、理想和有益作为目的，都是病态的、不健全的文学。”这是他文学创作的基本指导思想。而探讨资产阶级的社会道德问题，则是贯穿其文学创作的中心内容。

7. 求《茶花女》的英文简介和内容介绍

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》是法国亚历山大·仲马（Alexandre Dumas，年7月27日-1895年11月27日）的代表作，他为了与同为作家的父亲作区别，多称小仲马（Dumas, fils）。他本身是法国剧作家、小说家。《茶花女》是小仲马的代表作。 《茶花女》（La traviata）亦是朱塞佩·威尔第（Giuseppe Verdi）作曲的四幕歌剧。意大利文剧本由皮亚威（Francesco Maria Piave）编写，改编自亚历山大·仲马於1848年出版的小说《茶花女》（The Lady of the Camellias，La dame aux Camélias）。歌剧於1853年3月6日在威尼斯凤凰歌剧院（Teatro la Fenice）首演。作品名称「La traviata」解作「流浪的妇人」，或「失落的人」。 故事的原著小说，亦被改拍成电影《茶花女》（Camille）（1936）。《情陷红磨坊》（Moulin Rouge!）（2001）亦是以茶花女作蓝本改编。

剧本简介
剧本。法国小仲马作于1848年。巴黎名妓玛格丽特为青年阿尔芒的真挚爱情所感动，毅然离开社交生活，与阿尔芒同居乡间。阿尔芒之父责备玛格丽特毁了儿子的前程，玛格丽特被迫返回巴黎重操旧业。阿尔芒盛怒之下，在社交场合当众羞辱她。玛格丽特一病不起，含恨而死。阿尔芒读了玛格丽特的遗书，方知真相，追悔莫及。

作者简介
小仲马（1824~1895），19 世纪法国著名小说家、戏剧家。他的父亲是以多产闻名于世的杰出作家大仲马。在大仲马奢侈豪华而又飘浮不定的生活影响下，小仲马最初“觉得用功和游戏都索然寡味”。20岁时，他就结识了一些有夫之妇，过着纸醉金边的生活。另一方面，小仲马就热切地期望着自己也能像父亲一样，扬名于文坛。于是，他也开始从现实中取材，从妇女、婚姻等问题中寻找创作的灵感。

剧情详介
玛格丽特原来是个贫苦的乡下姑娘，来到巴黎后，开始了卖笑生涯。由于生得花容月貌，巴黎的贵族公子争相追逐，成了红极一时的“社交明星”。她随身的装扮总是少不了一束茶花，人称“茶花女”。
茶花女得了肺病，在接受矿泉治疗时，疗养院里有位贵族小姐，身材、长相和玛格丽特差不多，只是肺病已到了第三期，不久便死了。小姐的父亲摩里阿龙公爵在偶然发现玛格丽特很像他女儿，便收她做了干女儿。玛格丽特说出了自己的身世，公爵答应只要她能改变自己过去的生活，便负担她的全部日常费用。但玛格丽特不能完全做到，公爵便将钱减少了一半，玛格丽特入不敷出，到现在已欠下几万法郎的债务。
一天晚上10多钟，玛格丽特回来后，一群客人来访。邻居普律当丝带来两个青年，其中一个是税务局长迪瓦尔先生的儿子阿尔芒·迪瓦尔，他疯狂地爱着茶花女。
一年前，玛格丽特生病期间，阿尔芒每天跑来打听病情，却不肯留下自己的姓名。普律当丝向玛格丽特讲了阿尔芒的一片痴情，她很感动。玛格丽特和朋友们跳舞时，病情突然发作，阿尔芒非常关切地劝她不要这样残害自己，并向玛格丽特表白自己的爱情。他告诉茶花女，他现在还珍藏着她六个月前丢掉的纽扣。玛格丽特原已淡薄的心灵再次动了真情，她送给阿尔芒一朵茶花，以心相许。
阿尔芒真挚的爱情激发了玛格丽特对生活的热望，她决心摆脱百无聊赖的巴黎生活，和阿尔芒到乡下住一段时间。她准备独自一人筹划一笔钱，就请阿尔芒离开她一晚上。阿尔芒出去找玛格丽特时，恰巧碰上玛格丽特过去的情人，顿生嫉妒。他给玛格丽特写了一封措辞激烈的信，说他不愿意成为别人取笑的对象，他将离开巴黎。
但他并没有走，玛格丽特是他整个希望和生命，他跪着请玛格丽特原谅他，玛格丽特对阿尔芒倾述“你是我在烦乱的孤寂生活中所呼唤的一个人”。
经过努力，玛格丽特和阿尔芒在巴黎郊外租把一间房子。公爵知道后，断绝了玛格丽特的经济来源。她背着阿尔芒，典当了自己的金银首饰和车马来支付生活费用。阿尔芒了解后，决定把母亲留给他的一笔遗产转让，以还清玛格丽特所欠下的债务。经纪人要他去签字，他离开玛格丽特去巴黎。
那封信原来是阿尔芒的父亲迪瓦尔先生写的，他想骗阿尔芒离开，然后去找玛格丽特。告诉玛格丽特，他的女儿爱上一个体面的少年，那家打听到阿尔芒和玛格丽特的关系后表示：如果阿尔芒不和玛格丽特断绝关系，就要退婚。玛格丽特痛苦地哀求迪瓦尔先生，如果要让她与阿尔芒断绝关系，就等于要她的命，可迪瓦尔先生毫不退让。为阿尔芒和他的家庭，她只好作出牺牲，发誓与阿尔芒绝交。
玛格丽特非常悲伤地给阿尔芒写了封绝交信，然后回到巴黎，又开始了昔日的荒唐的生活。她接受了瓦尔维勒男爵的追求，他帮助她还清了一切债务，又赎回了首饰和马车。阿尔芒也怀着痛苦的心情和父亲回到家乡。
阿尔芒禁仍深深地怀念着玛格丽特，他又失魂落魄地来到巴黎。他决心报复玛格丽特的“背叛”。他找到了玛格丽特，处处给她难堪。骂她是没有良心、无情无义的娼妇，把爱情作为商品出卖。玛格丽特面对阿尔芒的误会，伤心地劝他忘了自己，永远不要再见面。阿尔芒却要她与自己一同逃离巴黎，逃到没人认识他们的地方，紧紧守着他们的爱情。玛格丽特说她不能那样，因为她已经起过誓，阿尔芒误以为她和男爵有过海誓山盟，便气愤地给玛格丽特写信侮辱她，并寄去了一叠钞票 玛格丽特受了这场刺激，一病不起。新年快到了，玛格丽特的病情更严重了，脸色苍白，没有一个人来探望她，她感到格外孤寂。迪瓦尔先生来信告诉她，他感谢玛格丽特信守诺言，已写信把事情的真象告诉了阿尔芒，现在玛格丽特唯一的希望就是再次见到阿尔芒。
临死前，债主们都来了，带着借据，逼她还债。执行官奉命来执行判决，查封了她的全部财产，只等她死后就进行拍卖。弥留之际，她不断地呼喊着阿尔芒的名字，“从她的睛里流出了无声的眼泪”。她始终没有再见到她心爱的人。 死后只有一个好心的邻居米利为她入殓。当阿尔芒重回到巴黎时，她把玛格丽特的一本日记交给了她。从日记中，阿尔芒才知道了她的高尚心灵。“除了你的侮辱是你始终爱我的证据外，我似乎觉得你越是折磨我，等到你知道真相的那一天，我在你眼中也就会显得越加崇高。”
阿尔芒怀着无限的悔恨与惆怅，专门为玛格丽特迁坟安葬，并在她的坟前摆满了白色的茶花。