FREE ESSAY ON ALEXANDRE DUMAS

ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Alexandre Dumas was a major playwright who helped to revolutionize French drama and
theater. He was one of the best historical novelists, publishing more than two hundred
novels. 
He was born on July twenty fourth, mille eighteen in the french town of
Villers-Cotterets. His father was a general in Napoleon's army. His mother,
Marie-Louise-Elizabeth was an innkeeper. His father died when he was four years old and
his mother was not able to provide him with much education. As a young man, Alexandre
Dumas worked as a clerc and moved to Paris. After seeing one of Shakesphere's plays,
Hamlet, he had found the direction that he needed to go. The play had inspired him to
become a playwright. In eighteen twenty four his son Alexandre Dumas fils, who became a
writer himself, was born. A few years later, after many failures, Alexandre Dumas wrote
Henry III, which was a great success. Dumas became prominent as one of the leaders of the
Romantic movement. Year's later, he turned all his attention to writing vivid historical
novels. His best known novels are The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.
However, He became famous not for his novels, but for his plays. Having been regarded as
the most important playwright, one of the most prolific writers ever, and the most famous
novelist in France, Dumas soon found his luck failing him. He made a fortune and quickly
lost it due to his lavish life-style, and generosity. His reputation became tarnished
because he often collaborated with people who supplied ideas and minor works, to which
Dumas gave his touch of literary genius. He now faced accusations and even suits charging
him of plagiarism. Later on in his life, he wrote his memoirs and on December fifth
eighteen seventy, he died in the bed at his son's estate in Puys.