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Author Guicharnaud, Jacques, 1924-2005.

Title Modern French theatre : from Giraudoux to Genet / by Jacques Guicharnaud in collaboration with June Guicharnaud
Edition [Revised edition]
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, 1967

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Description ix, 383 pages ; 21 cm
Series Yale Romanic studies ; 2d ser., 7
Yale Romanic studies ; 2d ser., 7
Contents Introduction: Theatre resurgent -- pt. 1. A theatre of the supernatural: Theatre as proposition: Jean Giraudoux -- The double game: Jean Cocetau -- The universe as parable: Paul Claudel -- pt. 2. Back to man: The agony of solitary souls: Henry de Montherlant -- From anguish to play : Jean Anouilh and Armand Salacrou -- Man and his acts: Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus -- pt. 3. Revolution continued: Poetry and discovery -- A world out of control: Eugene Ionesco -- Existence on stage: Samuel Beckett -- Conclusion: The gaping mask
Notes Bibliography: p. 355-371
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [355]-371
Subject Dramatists, French.
French drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Author Guicharnaud, June, author
LC no. 67026198
ISBN 0300005245