The infernal machine, and other plays
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The infernal machine, and other plays
（A New Directions book）（A New Directions paperbook, 235）
New Directions Pub., 1967, c1963
- : pbk
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Description based on 11th print
Plays translated by Albert Bermel, John Savacool, Dudley Fitts, W.H. Auden, Mary Hoeck, and E.E. Cummings
Contents of Works
- The infernal machine
- Orpheus
- The Eiffel Tower wedding party
- The Knights of the Round Table
- Bacchus
- The speaker's text of Oedipus rex
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Among the great figures who pioneered the modern movement in world literature, none showed himself more versatile than France's Jean Cocteau. Poet, novelist, critic, artist, actor, film-maker, Cocteau was also one of the greatest dramatists Europe has produced, with over a dozen plays which are frequently revived, not only in France, but in translation in many other countries. For this collection, fine translations of four full-length plays, one short play, and the "Speaker's Text" for the Cocteau-Stravinsky opera Oedipus Rex have been selected. The longer plays (The Infernal Machine, Orpheus, Bacchus, Knights of the Round Table) are re-creations of classic myth and legend-poetic and highly original interpretations of certain timeless themes which have inspired great drama through the ages. The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party is, by contrast, merely a "curtain-raiser," but remarkable as un jeu d'esprit, revealing the wit and psychological penetration for which Cocteau is famous.
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