La Dame aux Camélias 1878 "Scribner's Monthly" reported that "not one other play by Dumas, "fils" has been received with favor out of France". The success of the play inspired Giuseppe Verdi to put the story to music. His work became the 1853 opera "La traviata", set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. The female protagonist, Marguerite Gautier, is renamed Violetta Valéry. "La Dame aux Camélias" has been adapted for some 20 different motion pictures in numerous countries and in a wide variety of languages. The role of Marguerite Gautier has been played on screen by Sarah Bernhardt, María Félix, Clara Kimball
Culture of the Republican era in China metaphors and allusion. The popular words include, "Red Candles" (1923), and "Dead Water" (1929). Drama in this period can be called as 'New theatre', 'New drama', or 'Civilised drama'.The beginning of modern Chinese China was triggered by the inspiration from the western world similarly to Chinese poetry. The initial effort began by the foundation of Spring Willow Society in Japan in 1907. They began by translating the plays such as "La Dame aux Camelias". One element of this Civilised drama was the 'spoken drama' contradicting to the traditional 'singing drama'. This form was adopted by Ti-ien Han. The purpose of