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

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

Ted Freeman
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Author:  Ted Freeman
Condition:  New
Format:  Hardback
Pages:  240
Publisher:  University of Exeter Press
Year:  1998
ISBN:  9780859894852


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.




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Theatres Of War: French Committed Theatre from the Second World War to the Cold War
Ted Freeman
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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 responded to the issues of their time by contributing a number of tense controversial plays to a distinctive genre of realist theatre.