Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-248) and index.
Contents:
A queer premiere: Jean Cocteau's The Typewriter -- Collabo Beefcake and resistant reception: ambiguity in André Obey's Eight Hundred Meters and The Suppliant Women -- French Identity: the intended audience for Jean Giraudoux's The Apollo of Marsac -- The limits of opportunism: Simone Jollivet's The Princess of Ursins -- The politics of intention: Jean Anouilh's Antigone via Oreste -- The politics of reception: Jean-Paul Sartre's The Flies -- A politics of sexuality: Henry de Montherlant's Nobody's Son -- The politics of impersonation: Casting and recasting Paul Claudel's The Satin Slipper -- Catching The Last Mʹetro: Francois Truffaut's Portrayal of Occupation Drama and Sexuality.
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