Title: Total eclipse
First published: 1969
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.
Subjects: Drama, English drama, Fiction, general, Motion picture plays, Total eclipse (Motion picture), In literature
People: Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)