The Infernal Machine: & Other Plays

Cocteau, Jean

ISBN 10: 0811200221 / ISBN 13: 9780811200226

Editore: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1964

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Riassunto:

Presents the texts of six dramatic works by the French master of literature, including Orpheus, Bacchus, and The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party

Product Description: Among the great figures who pioneered the modern movement in world literature, none showed himself more versatile than France's Jean Cocteau. Poet, novelist, critic, artist, actor, film-maker, Cocteau was also one of the greatest dramatists Europe has produced, with over a dozen plays which are frequently revived, not only in France, but in translation in many other countries. For this collection, fine translations of four full-length plays, one short play, and the "Speaker's Text" for the Cocteau-Stravinsky opera Oedipus Rex have been selected. The longer plays (The Infernal Machine, Orpheus, Bacchus, Knights of the Round Table) are re-creations of classic myth and legend-poetic and highly original interpretations of certain timeless themes which have inspired great drama through the ages. The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party is, by contrast, merely a "curtain-raiser," but remarkable as un jeu d'esprit, revealing the wit and psychological penetration for which Cocteau is famous.

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Titolo: The Infernal Machine: & Other Plays
Casa editrice: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Data di pubblicazione: 1964
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket