Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: the inter-war years; 2. The Occupation; 3. The Parisian theatre I: philosophical melodrama; 4. The Parisian theatre II: the new theatre; 5. The decentralised theatre I: the fifties; 6. The decentralised theatre II: Planchon and Adamov; 7. The decentralised theatre III: the sixties; 8. Total theatre; 9. La creation collective; 10. Playwrights of the seventies; 11. The eighties; Bibliography; Historical table of productions; Index.

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An updated account and comparison of the major traditions and tendencies in the French theatre from 1940–1990.