Song of Songs (Giraudoux)
| Song of Songs | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Jean Giraudoux |
| Characters | The President, Florence Jerome, The Manager, The Cashier, The Waiter |
| Date premiered | 12 October 1938 |
| Place premiered | Comedie Française in Paris |
| Original language | French |
| Subject | The bittersweet end of an affair |
| Genre | Tragedy |
| Setting | A cafe in Paris, 1935 |
Song of Songs is an English adaptation of the play Cantique des Cantiques written in 1938 by the French dramatist Jean Giraudoux.
Plot summary
[edit]The President is at a table of in Parisian cafe waiting for his young lover, Florence. When she arrives she announces that she is going to marry Jerome, a young man she has just met.
Original productions
[edit]Cantique des Cantiques was translated into English by John Raikes, in the Tulane Drama Review (1959), and by Herma Briffault, in Barry Ulanov, Makers of Modern Theatre (1961).[1]
Cantique des Cantiques was first performed on 12 October 1938[2] in Paris at the Comedie Française in a production by Louis Jouvet.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Cohen, Robert (1968), Jean Giraudoux; Three Faces of Destiny, p. 158, University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- ^ Grossvogel, David I. (1958), 20th Century French Drama, p. 342, Columbia University Press, New York.
- ^ Inskip, Donald, (1958), Jean Giraudoux, The Making of a Dramatist, p. 182, Oxford University Press, New York.
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