The following list of critical materials were instrumental in the development of this adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses: The following list of materials are resources for an introductory understanding of the novel and the period in which it was written:
Baroche, Christiane.L’hiver de beauté. Paris: Gallimard, 1987.

Carson, Kathryn. “Les Liaisons Dangereuses on Stage and Film.” Literature/Film Quarterly 19.1 (1991): 35-40.

Close, Glenn. Interview by Robert Maccubbin. Eighteenth Century Life 14.2 (1990): 67-74.

Cook, Rita. “Adaptive Inventions: An Interview with Roger Kumble.” Creative Screenwriting. 6.2 (1999): 35-37.

Craig, Stuart. Interview with Robert Maccubbin. Eighteenth Century Life 14.2 (1990): 90-97.

Fell, John L. “The Correspondents’ Curse: Vadim’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (1959).” Modern European Filmmakers and the Art of Adaptation. Ed. Andrew Horton and Joan Magretta. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1981. pp. 51-62.

Forman, Milos. Interview with Elise Knapp and Robert Glen. Eighteenth Century Life 14.2 (1990): 98-107.

--- Turnaround: A Memoir. New York: Villard Books, 1994.

Frears, Stephen. Interview with Robert Maccubbin. Eighteenth Century Life 14.2 (1990): 75-80.

Haase, Hella S. Une liaison dangereuse, Lettres de La Haye. Translated from Dutch by Anne-Marie de Both-Diez. Paris: Seuil, 1995.

Hall, Carol. “Valmont Redux: The Fortunes and Filmed Adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos.” Literature/Film Quarterly 19.1 (1991): 41-50.

Hammer, Stephanie Barbé. “Romanticism and Reaction: Hampton’s Transformation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses.” Christopher Hampton: A Casebook.Ed. Robert Gross. New York: Garland, 1990.

Hampton, Christopher. Dangerous Liaisons: The Film. London: Faber and Faber, 1989.

--- Interview with Robert Maccubbin. Eighteenth Century Life 14.2 (1990): 81-89

--- Les liaisons dangereuses: A Play. London: Faber and Faber, 1985.

Hollinger, Karen. “Losing the Feminist Drift: Adaptations of Les Liaisons Dangereuses.” Literature/Film Quarterly. 24.3 (1996): 293-300.

Humbert, Brigitte. De la lettre à l’écran, Les liaisons dangereuses. Paris: Faux Titre, 2000.

Hunter, Mark. “Marquise de Merteuil and Comte de Valmont Get Laid.” American Film Dec. 1988: 26-31.

Joshel, Sandra R. “Fatal Liaisons and Dangerous Attraction: The Destruction of Feminist Voices.” Journal of Popular Culture 26.3 (1992):

Knapp, Elise F. and Robert Glen. “The Energy of Evil Has Diminished: Less Dangerous Liaisons.” Eighteenth Century Life 14.2 (1990): 41-48.

Overton, Bill. “The Play of Letters: Les liaisons dangereuseson the Stage.” Theatre Research International. 13.3 (1988): 263-274.

Singerman, Alan J. “Variations on a Denouement: Les Liaisons Dangereuses on Film.” Eighteenth Century Life 14.2 (1990): 44-55.

Vadim, Roger. Memoirs of the Devil. Trans. Peter Beglan. New York: Harcourt Brace Javanovich, 1975.

Vailland, Roger. Les liaisons dangereuses 1960. Paris: René Julliard, 1960.

Heiner Müller, "Quartet," Hamletmachine and other plays, Trans. Carl Weber (New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1984), 104-118.

 

Choderlos de Laclos, On the Education of Women, Trans. Lydia Davis in The Libertine Reader, Ed. Michel Feher (New York: Zone Books, 1997), 128-166.

Chantal Thomas, "On the Education of Women, or: Portrait of the Natural Woman," The Libertine Reader, ed. Michel Feher (New York: Zone Books, 1997), 114-127.

Nancy K. Miller, "Libertinage and Feminism," Yale French Studies 94, Libertinage and Modernity, ed. Catherine Cusset (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998), 17-28.

Thomas Kavanagh, "The Libertine Moment," Yale French Studies 94, Libertinage and Modernity, ed. Catherine Cusset (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998), 79-100.

Pierre Saint-Amand, The Libertine's Progress: Seduction in the Eighteenth-Century French Novel, trans. Jennifer Curtiss Gage Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1994.

Peter Brooks, The Novel of Worldliness: Crébillon, Marivaux, Laclos, Stendhal. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969.

Michel Feher, "A Woman's Liberties," The Libertine Reader, ed. Michel Feher (New York: Zone Books, 1997), 912-934.

Vadim, Roger. “La carriere de Satan.” Les liaisons dangereuses 1960. Paris: René Julliard, 1960.

Diaconoff, Suellen. “Resistance and Retreat: A Laclosian Primer for Women.” University of Toronto Quarterly 58.3 (1989) 391-408.

Laclos et le libertinage – 1782-1982: Actes du colloque du bicentenaire des Liaisons dangereuses. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1983.

Jackson, Susan K. “In Search of a Female Voice: Les liaisons dangereuses.” Writing the Female Voice. Ed. Elizabeth Goldsmith. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1989: 154-171.

Miller, Nancy K. French Dressing: Women, Men, and Ancien Régime Fiction. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Hunt, Lynn and Jack Censer. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution (Book and CD-Rom). University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001.

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