Author: Jean Genet
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802194303
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The two plays collected in this volume represent Genet’s first attempts to analyze the mores of a bourgeois society he had previously been content simply to vilify. In The Maids, two domestic workers, deeply resentful of their inferior social position, try to revenge themselves against society by destroying their employer. When their attempt to betray their mistress’s lover to the police fails and they are in danger of being found out, they dream of murdering Madame, little aware of the true power behind their darkest fantasy. In Deathwatch, two convicts try to impress a third, who is on the verge of achieving legendary status in criminal circles. But neither realizes the lengths to which they will go to gain respect or that, in the end, nothing they can do—including murder—will get them what they are searching for.
The Maids and Deathwatch
Author: Jean Genet
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802194303
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The two plays collected in this volume represent Genet’s first attempts to analyze the mores of a bourgeois society he had previously been content simply to vilify. In The Maids, two domestic workers, deeply resentful of their inferior social position, try to revenge themselves against society by destroying their employer. When their attempt to betray their mistress’s lover to the police fails and they are in danger of being found out, they dream of murdering Madame, little aware of the true power behind their darkest fantasy. In Deathwatch, two convicts try to impress a third, who is on the verge of achieving legendary status in criminal circles. But neither realizes the lengths to which they will go to gain respect or that, in the end, nothing they can do—including murder—will get them what they are searching for.
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802194303
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The two plays collected in this volume represent Genet’s first attempts to analyze the mores of a bourgeois society he had previously been content simply to vilify. In The Maids, two domestic workers, deeply resentful of their inferior social position, try to revenge themselves against society by destroying their employer. When their attempt to betray their mistress’s lover to the police fails and they are in danger of being found out, they dream of murdering Madame, little aware of the true power behind their darkest fantasy. In Deathwatch, two convicts try to impress a third, who is on the verge of achieving legendary status in criminal circles. But neither realizes the lengths to which they will go to gain respect or that, in the end, nothing they can do—including murder—will get them what they are searching for.
The Maids and Deathwatch Two Plays by Jean Genet
Author: Jean Genet
Publisher: Paw Prints
ISBN: 9781439513774
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Paw Prints
ISBN: 9781439513774
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Deathwatch/The Maids
Author: Pit Theatre
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The Maids
Author: Jean Genet
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Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Pages : 166
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The Maids and Deathwatch; Two Plays. With an Introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtma
Author: Jean Genet
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Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Pages : 166
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The Maids. Deathwatch. Two Plays, Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman
Author: Jean Genet
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Languages : en
Pages : 166
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The Question of Identity in Deathwatch and The Maids
Author: Valerie A. Skidd
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Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Languages : en
Pages : 118
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The Maids
Author: Jean Genet
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Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Pages : 166
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The Maids and Deathwatch
Author: Jean Genet
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Pages : 166
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The Screens
Author: Jean Genet
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802151582
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Explicitly political, The Screens is set within the context of the Algerian War. The play's cast of over fifty characters moves through seventeen scenes, the world of the living breaching the world of the dead by means of shifting the screens--the only scenery--in a brilliant tour de force of spectacle and drama.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802151582
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Explicitly political, The Screens is set within the context of the Algerian War. The play's cast of over fifty characters moves through seventeen scenes, the world of the living breaching the world of the dead by means of shifting the screens--the only scenery--in a brilliant tour de force of spectacle and drama.