many adaptations, spin-offs, and parodies, was Camille, "a travesty on La Dame aux Camellias by Charles Ludlam, staged first by his own Ridiculous Theatrical Company in 1973, with Ludlam playing the lead in drag. In 1999 Alexia Vassiliou collaborated with composer Aristides Mytaras for the contemporary dance performance, La Dame aux Camélias at the Amore Theatre in Athens. It is also the inspiration for the 2008 musical Marguerite, which places the story in 1944 German-occupied France. Novels In My Ántonia by Willa Cather, the characters Jim Burden and Lena Lingard are much moved by a theatrical production of Camille, which they attend in book 3, chapter 3. Love Story'', published by Eric Segal in 1970, has essentially the same plot updated to contemporary New York. The conflict here centres on the relative economic classes of the central characters. References External links Full texts at Project Gutenberg in the original French and in an English translation , Camille , and La Dama de las Camilias 1953 Best Plays radio adaptation of play at Internet Archive 1848 French novels 1852 plays French novels adapted into films French novels adapted into television shows French novels adapted into plays Novels adapted into operas Novels adapted into ballets French romance novels Novels about French prostitution Novels set in Paris Novels by Alexandre Dumas fils Female characters in literature Tragedy plays Ballets to the music of Frédéric Chopin