The Infernal Machine and Other Plays
Author(s): Jean Cocteau
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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Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) was an avant-garde French writer, designer, filmmaker and boxing manager.
General Fields
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- : New Directions
- : New Directions
- : 0.44
- : 31 January 1982
- : 206mm X 132mm X 30mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Jean Cocteau
- : Paperback
- : 14th impression
- : 842.912
- : very good
- : 412