Jean Giraudoux
1) Four plays
Author
Series
Mermaid dramabook volume MD12
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[1958]
Language
English
14) Ondine
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1954]
Language
English
Description
Ondine is a play written in 1938 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux that tells the story of Hans and Ondine. Hans is a knight-errant who has been sent off on a quest by his betrothed. In the forest he meets and falls in love with Ondine, a water-sprite who is attracted to the world of mortal man. The subsequent marriage of people from different worlds is of course folly. By turns comic, enchanting, and tragic, Ondine is considered by some to be Giraudoux's...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[1955]
Language
Français
Description
The Madwoman of Chaillot is a play, a poetic satire, by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, written in 1943 and first performed in 1945, after his death. The play is in two acts. The story concerns an eccentric woman who lives in Paris and her struggles against the straitlaced authority figures in her life.
Author
Series
Ecrivains de toujours volume 8
Publisher
Éditions du Seuil
Pub. Date
[1962]
Language
Français