Theatres of War: French Committed Theatre from the Second World War to the Cold War

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-85989-485-2
Verlag: UNIV OF EXETER

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 515 g

Theatres of War is the first full-length study to be devoted to the 'Committed' theatre that flourished in modern France from 1944 to the mid-1950s. During this crucial decade, authors such as Sartre, de Beauvoir and Camus, along with other lesser-known dramatists, responded to the issues of their time by contributing a number of tense controversial plays to a distinctive genre of realist theatre. These plays dealt with the ideological, political and moral issues arising from the Second World War, the Cold War and a series of disastrous colonial wars.

Theatres of War combines historical contextualisation, pointing up the political and moral debate of the theatre of the period, with detailed analysis of specific plays, making it a useful student text. All quotations are in French with English translations immediately following.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Freeman, Ted

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: "Toulon", Jean-Richard Bloch; "Les nuits de la colcre", Salacrou; "Morts sans sepulture, les mains sales", Sartre; "Les bouches inutiles", Simone de Beauvoir; "Montserrat", Emmanuel Roblcs; "Les justes", Camus; "Rome n'est pas dans Rome", Gabriel Marcel; "La maison de la nuit", Thierry Maulnier; "Le colonel Foster plaidera coupable", Roger Vailland; "La peur", Georges Soria. (Part contents.)

Über Autor(innen)

Ted Freeman is Senior Lecturer in French, University of Bristol. He is the author and editor of many books.