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Item Details
Title:
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ANOUILH PLAYS
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Volume: |
Bk. 1 |
By: |
Jean Anouilh, Ned Chaillet |
Format: |
Paperback |
List price:
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£22.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
041314030X |
ISBN 13: |
9780413140302 |
Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
Pub. date: |
10 December, 1987 |
Series: |
World Classics |
Pages: |
448 |
Translated from: |
French |
Description: |
This collection includes: "Antigone"; "The Lark"; "Poor Bitos" - works which show Anouilh's love of reworking myth, history and legend. "Leocadia" and "The Waltz of the Toreadors" demonstrate his talent for ironic modern comedy. |
Synopsis: |
A selection of the most enduring work of one of this century's best-known French playwrights Jean Anouilh (1910-87) along with Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, was at the forefront of the post-war generation of playwrights in Paris. In England his plays were championed by Peter Brook. Antigone is a response to the German occupation of France and established his popularity in 1944 (the Germans ironically, thought that it was a pro-Nazi in its portrayal of King Creon and thus allowed its production); Poor Bitos, Anouilh's angriest play explores the act of judicial murder and The Lark is a version of the Joan of Arc story. All three plays show his fondness for reworking myth, history and legend. Meanwhile Leocadia, about an opera singer who dies after a three day love affair with a prince and The Waltz of the Toreadors, about a general whose mistress attempts to prove his wife's infidelity, represent another talent - for ironic, modern comedy."Anouilh is a poet but not a poet of words, he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of players-performing." (Peter Brook) |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Methuen Drama |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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