Tempering Feydeau: Twisting and Guilty Pleasures on the London Stage (1893-1897) by Violaine Heyraud

“…Beginning in 1892, Feydeau established himself in France as the new master of vaudeville comedy. London theatres surrendered to his infectious laughter, producing a number of his plays between 1892 and 1897, though admittedly, carefully selected: The Sportsman, adapted from Monsieur chasse! …”
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'Contrafacta': le chant, les timbres, la romance et les conditions de la poésie au tournant des Lumières by Martin Wåhlberg

“…The article first examines the backdrop of the more general tradition of writing new texts to pre-existing music in the eighteenth century, typical for instance in certain literary circles and, most notably, in the genre of opéra-comique en vaudevilles as it develops in Parisian fair theatres from 1715 and up to the late 1750s. …”
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