Total eclipse
By: Christopher Hampton.
Publisher: Faber and Faber; Faber & Faber
Published: 1995
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Rimbaud, Arthur, -- 1854-1891 -- Drama.; Verlaine, Paul, -- 1844-1896 -- Drama.
Description: Set in Paris in the late 1800s, Total Eclipse is the story of Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, two of France's greatest poets. Verlaine is a volatile alcoholic torn between his lovely yet conventional wife and the seductive, dangerous and brilliant Rimbaud, a young poet whose life and work is fuelled by an insatiable hunger for intense experience, unbounded by rules or consequences.

Total Eclipse is the audacious, demanding and provocative story of a volatile romantic triangle and the lives it consumes. This screenplay is based on Christopher Hampton's highly successful stage play, originally written in 1967.