Jean Giraudoux

Amphitryon 38

Comic play based on the Jupiter-Amphitryon myth with elegant sophistication

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Jean Giraudoux
Jean Giraudoux

French playwright who brought elegant fantasy, classical allusion, and political allegory to the interwar stage. The Trojan War Will Not Take Place (Tiger at the Gates) eerily anticipated World War II. His work occupies a unique position between neoclassicism and modernism.

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