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Sunday, February 5, 2023
The endlessly adaptable plays of Plautus - I’ll make it into a comedy with some tragedy mixed in
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The plays of Plautus are the foundation of Western comedy. That they are based on the plays of Menander and the other Greek New Comedy writ...
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Monday, November 29, 2021
life is probably nothing other than happiness - Jean Anouilh and Anne Carson adapt Greek plays, and Jean Giraudoux adapts something else
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The French went nuts, in the 1930s and even more so in the 1940s, for adaptations of ancient Greek plays. I don’t know why. I have guesses...
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Tuesday, June 9, 2020
the rest of my French reading in May - André Breton's war and Jean Giraudoux's peace
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Two authors, aside from Kessel, filled out my May reading in French, André Breton and Jean Giraudoux. Nadja (1928), Breton’s novel-like t...
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