Modern French Theatre

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MODERN FRENCH THEATRE
Jacques Guicharnaud, with June Beckelman, presents review the revolutionary theatre of:
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Giraudoux Montherlant Sartre Beckett
Cocteau
Anouilh
Camus
Claudel
Salacrou
Ionesco
with a chapter on the modern farce.
He discusses the leading ideas, the recurrent images, and the theatrical technique of the major French dramatists of the past thirty years. Through his penetrating analysis we discover the unique "signature" of each playwright, "a mark that can be recognized at every level of his work, from surface effects to a fundamental vision of man and the world."
Jacques Guicharnaud, associate professor of French at Yale University, was formerly associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and the group of Les Temps Modernes. His translations of Tennessee Williams' plays have been widely performed in France.
"No bettef aid to this process of gaining a true understanding of the French point of xnew in the theatre is to be found anywhere else in English than in... Tovább

Fülszöveg

MODERN FRENCH THEATRE
Jacques Guicharnaud, with June Beckelman, presents review the revolutionary theatre of:
m
Giraudoux Montherlant Sartre Beckett
Cocteau
Anouilh
Camus
Claudel
Salacrou
Ionesco
with a chapter on the modern farce.
He discusses the leading ideas, the recurrent images, and the theatrical technique of the major French dramatists of the past thirty years. Through his penetrating analysis we discover the unique "signature" of each playwright, "a mark that can be recognized at every level of his work, from surface effects to a fundamental vision of man and the world."
Jacques Guicharnaud, associate professor of French at Yale University, was formerly associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and the group of Les Temps Modernes. His translations of Tennessee Williams' plays have been widely performed in France.
"No bettef aid to this process of gaining a true understanding of the French point of xnew in the theatre is to be found anywhere else in English than in these compact and densely meaningful pages." — Harold Clurman, director.of the Broadway productions of Giraudoux's "Tiger at the Gates" and Anouilh's "The Waltz of the Toreadors."
" Wonderful! Fascinating! A very good approach to the understanding of modern French dramatists and their plays, both for the audience and the actor." — Zero Mostel, winner of the 1961 Antoinette Perry ("Tony") Award for his role inio-, nesco's "Rhinoceros."
"Definitely the best study of the French theatre published in America since . . . World War II. - George Freedley, Theatre : Arts. \ i ^
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yale university press
new haven and london, Vissza