The Maids and Deathwatch: Two Plays

The Maids and Deathwatch: Two Plays - Paperback

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The Maids and Deathwatch: Two Plays - Paperback

The Maids and Deathwatch: Two Plays - Paperback

by Jean Genet
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Book Overview

The two plays collected in this volume represent Genet's first attempts to analyze the mores of a bourgeois society he had previously been content simply to vilify. In The Maids, two domestic workers, deeply resentful of their inferior social position, try to revenge themselves against society by destroying their employer. When their attempt to betray their mistress's lover to the police fails and they are in danger of being found out, they dream of murdering Madame, little aware of the true power behind their darkest fantasy.

In Deathwatch, two convicts try to impress a third, who is on the verge of achieving legendary status in criminal circles. But neither realizes the lengths to which they will go to gain respect or that, in the end, nothing they can do--including murder--will get them what they are searching for.
ISBN9780802150561
Author Jean Genet
PublisherGrove Press
GenreDrama
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 1994
LanguageENG- English
Pages166
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Jean Genet

Jean Genet (1910 - 1986) was "a pioneering author of confessional novels and a dramatist of the first magnitude" (New York Times). His many books include Our Lady of the Flowers, Querelle, The Miracle of the Rose, Funeral Rites, The Balcony, The Maids and Deathwatch, The Blacks, and The Screens.

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