The Screens

The Screens - Paperback

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The Screens - Paperback

The Screens - Paperback

by Jean Genet
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Book Overview

Jean Genet was one of the world's greatest contemporary dramatists, and his last play, The Screens, is his crowning achievement. It strikes a powerful, closing chord to the formidable theatrical work that began with Deathwatch and continued, with even bolder variations, in The Maids, The Balcony, and The Blacks.

Explicitly political, The Screens is set within the context of the Algerian War. The play's cast of over fifty characters moves through seventeen scenes, the world of the living breaching the world of the dead by means of shifting the screens--the only scenery--in a brilliant tour de force of spectacle and drama.
ISBN9780802151582
Author Jean Genet
PublisherGrove Press
GenreDrama
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 1994
LanguageENG- English
Pages210
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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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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