Costache Caragiale (; 29 March 1815 â 13 February 1877) was a Romanian actor and theatre manager who had an important role in the development of the Romanian theatre.
Born in Bucharest, Wallachia, he made his stage debut in 1835 and, in 1838, organized a theatre company in IaÃÂi, Moldavia, which became part of the first Romanian National Theatre.
He worked in many Romanian regional theatres, especially in IaÃÂi, Craiova, and BotoÃÂani, and encouraged the usage of plays by Romanian dramatists of the day, especially those of Vasile Alecsandri and Constantin Negruzzi. Between 1852 and 1855, Costache Caragiale was the first director of the National Theatre Bucharest. He also wrote a few comedies, such as O repetiÃÂie moldoveneascàâ A Moldavian Rehearsal (1844) and O soaré la mahala (A Soirée in the Neighbourhood) in 1847.
He is the uncle of Ion Luca Caragiale, a Romanian playwright. His younger brother, , was also an actor and theatre director.
Works
- Scrieri a lui Costache Caragiale, ("Writings by Costache Caragiale"), 1840
- EpistolÃÂ cÃÂtre Grigore Alexandrescu, ("Letter to Grigore Alexandrescu"), 1841
- Leonil sau Ce produce dispreÃÂul, ("Leonil or What Contempt Produces"), 1841
- O repetiÃÂie moldoveneascÃÂ sau Noi ÃÂi iar Noi, ("A Moldavian Rehearsal or We And We Again"), 1844, comedy
- O soaré la mahala sau Amestecul de dorinÃÂi, ("A Soirée in the Low-Life Neighborhood or The Mixture of Aspirations"), comedy
- ÃÂngâmfata plÃÂpumÃÂreasàsau Cucoanàsunt ("The Conceited Quiltmaker or A Lady I Am")
- Doi coÃÂcari sau FeriÃÂi-vÃÂ de rÃÂi ca de foc ("Two Swindlers or Avoid the Bad Ones Like Poison")
- ÃÂnvierea morÃÂilor ("The Resurrection of the Dead")
- Urmarea coÃÂcarilor ("The Swindlers, A Sequel")
- Prologul pentru inaugurarea noului teatru din BucureÃÂti, ("Prologue at the Inauguration of the New Theater in Bucharest"), (1852), 1881
- Teatrul NaÃÂional în ÃÂara RomâneascÃÂ, ("The National Theater in Wallachia"), (1855), 1867
Translations
- Furiosul, ("Orlando Furioso" ?), 1840
References