Le Balcon - Genet

Author:   Jean Genet ,  David Walker ,  David Walker
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9780423509809


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   07 October 1982
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained


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Le Balcon - Genet


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Jean Genet's The Balcony, which premiered in 1957, has come to be recognised as one of the founding plays of modern theatre, and is what the philosopher Lucien Goldmann has called 'the first great Brechtian play in French literature'. directs a series of fantastical scenarios - a bishop forgives a penitent, a judge punishes a thief, a general rides astride his horse. Outside, an uprising threatens to engulf the streets. The patrons of the brothel wait anxiously for the chief of police to arrive, but in his place comes the queen's envoy to inform that the figureheads of the establishment have been killed in the uprising. Play-acting turns to reality, as the patrons don their costumes in public in the attempt to quell the insurrection. all refracted through the prism of Genet's sexualised genius.

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Author:   Jean Genet ,  David Walker ,  David Walker
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.230kg
ISBN:  

9780423509809


ISBN 10:   0423509802
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   07 October 1982
Audience:   Young adult ,  Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Teenage / Young adult ,  Educational: Primary & Secondary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

Language:   French

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