Title: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Play)
First published: 1980
Description: Le Vicomte de Valmont begins the play as an unworthy, cynical pleasure-seeker, proud of his reputation as a seducer. He is encouraged in his enterprises by his former mistress, La Marquise de Merteuil, who would seem to share his cynicism, but who has an ulterior motive. Set in France among aristocrats before the Revolution, this is nevertheless a play for all time about sexual manners and manipulation, ending in tragedy.
Subjects: Aristocracy (Social class), Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Motion picture plays, Social life and customs, British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author), Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author), Music Box (New York, N.Y.), Royal Shakespeare Company
Places: France
Time periods: 18th century