Siegfried (play)
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| Siegfried | |
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| Written by | Jean Giraudoux |
| Characters | Siegfried, Eva, Jacques, Zelten, Genevieve |
| Date premiered | 3 May 1928 |
| Place premiered | Comedie des Champs-Elysees in Paris |
| Original language | French |
| Subject | An injured French soldier with amnesia becomes a German |
| Genre | Drama |
| Setting | ???????? |
Siegfried is a play written in 1928 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, adapted from his own 1922 novel Siegfried et le Limousin.
Siegfried was translated into English in 1930 by Philip Carr[1] and again in 1964 by Phyllis La Farge and Peter H. Judd.[2]
Original productions
Siegfried was first performed on 3 May 1928[3] in Paris at the Comedie des Champs-Elysees in a production by Louis Jouvet.[4]
References
- ^ Cohen, Robert (1968), Jean Giraudoux; Three Faces of Destiny, p. 157, University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- ^ Giraudoux, Jean (1964), Three Plays, vol 2, Translated by Phyllis La Farge and Peter H. Judd, Hill and Wang, New York
- ^ Grossvogel, David I. (1958), 20th Century French Drama, p. 341, 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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