Georges Feydeau's Books

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The Girl from Maxim's; She's All Yours; Jailbird

By: Georges Feydeau

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The Girl from Maxim's; She's All Yours; Jailbird

By: Georges Feydeau

Kenneth McLeish's definitive translations of the most successful French dramatist of the Belle Epoque Georges Feydau (1862-1921) was the most successful French dramatist of the belle epoque and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest of farce-writers. His series of dazzling hits matched high-speed action and dialogue with ingenious plotting. Reaching the heights of farcical lunacy, his plays nevertheless contain touches of barbed social comment and allowed him to mention subjects which would have provoked outrage in the hands of more serious dramatists. This volume of new, sparkling translations by Kenneth McLeish contains two plays from the peak of his career, The Girl from Maxim 's and She's All Yours (La Main Passe), together with an early work, Jailbird (Gibier de potence).

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1472517598

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9781472517593

Feydeau Plays: 1

Heart's Desire Hotel; Sauce for the Goose; The One That Got Away; Now You See it; Pig in a Poke

By: Georges Feydeau

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Heart's Desire Hotel; Sauce for the Goose; The One That Got Away; Now You See it; Pig in a Poke

By: Georges Feydeau

Kenneth McLeish's definitive translations of the most successful French dramatist of the Belle Epoque Georges Feydau (1862-1921) was the most successful French dramatist of the belle epoque and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest of farce-writers. His series of dazzling hits match high-speed action and dialogue with ingenious plotting. Reaching the heights of farcical lunacy, his plays nevertheless contain touches of barbed social comment and allowed him to mention subjects which would have provoked outrage in the hands of more serious dramatists. This volume of new, sparkling translations by Kenneth McLeish contains his two masterpieces, Heart's Desire Hotel (L'Hôtel du libre échange) and Sauce For the Goose (Le Dindon), with three other plays from the peak of his career, The One That Got Away (Monsieur Chasse!), Now You See It (Le System Ribadier) and Pig in a Poke (Chat en poche).

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1472517563

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9781472517562

Feydeau: Three Farces

By: George Feydeau

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Feydeau: Three Farces

By: George Feydeau

Georges Feydeau, once considered as purveyor of slapstick farces, is now accepted as France’s best comic dramatist since Moliere. He once said that to make people laugh you have to place your cast in a dramatic situation and then observe them from a comic angle, but they must never do or say anything which is not strictly demanded, first by their character and secondly by the plot. Includes the plays Fitting for Ladies, A Close Shave and Sauce for the Goose. In Fitting for Ladies, a man on the look-out for a new romantic rendezvous is mistaken for a dressmaker... In A Close Shave, a woman's would-be lover has to assume the identity of her artist husband, who is about to be called up for military service. In Sauce for the Goose, a man discovers that the woman he is pursuing is the wife of an old friend...

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1849439931

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9781849439930

From Marriage to Divorce

Four One-Act Plays

By: George Feydeau

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From Marriage to Divorce

Four One-Act Plays

By: George Feydeau

Feydeau's major farces are universally admired, but relatively few people are familiar with his early work. When Feydeau left school in 1879 he began writing monologues for leading actors and actresses to perform in salons and at charity concerts But by 1882 he had progressed to the one-act play, which he continued to write through his career. The most successful were the four published in this volume, written between 1908 and 1911, and which he always wished to see published together, as they are here, under the title From Marriage to Divorce. The plays are more or less based upon the breakdown of his own marriage. This volume includes the plays Better Late, One Month Early, Take Your Medicine Like a Man and Don't Walk About With Nothing On. These translations were commissioned by the BBC.

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1783192828

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9781783192823

Feydeau, First to Last

Eight One Act Comedies

By: Georges Feydeau

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Eight One Act Comedies

By: Georges Feydeau

(Applause Books). Feydeau was the greatest of a great age of French farceurs and the first to enter the modern repertory. Of the more than 40 plays Feydeau wrote, over a third were one-acts. In this volume, Shapiro has selected and translated eight of these one-act plays, among them Feydeau's first and last works. Includes: Ladies' Man * Wooed and Viewed * Romance in A Flat * Fit to Be Tried, or, Stepbrothers in Crime * Mixed Doubles * The Boor Hug * Caught with His Trance Down * Tooth and Consequences, or, Hortense Said: "No Skin Off My Ass!

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1557834636

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9781557834638

A Flea in Her Ear

An Adaptation of Georges Feydeau's Boulevard Farce

By: Georges Feydeau,Frank Galati

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A Flea in Her Ear

An Adaptation of Georges Feydeau's Boulevard Farce

By: Georges Feydeau,Frank Galati

THE STORY: Although the adaptor has moved the action of the play into the twentieth century (which serves to heighten the sexual allusions which make the play so hilarious), the action follows the pattern of the famous original: a complex series of

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

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082220407X

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9780822204077

Feydeau Plays: 2

The Girl from Maxim's; She's All Yours; Jailbird

By: Georges Feydeau

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The Girl from Maxim's; She's All Yours; Jailbird

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Feydeau Plays: 1

Heart's Desire Hotel; Sauce for the Goose; The One That Got Away; Now You See it; Pig in a Poke

By: Georges Feydeau

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Heart's Desire Hotel; Sauce for the Goose; The One That Got Away; Now You See it; Pig in a Poke

By: Georges Feydeau

Kenneth McLeish's definitive translations of the most successful French dramatist of the Belle Epoque Georges Feydau (1862-1921) was the most successful French dramatist of the belle epoque and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest of farce-writers. His series of dazzling hits match high-speed action and dialogue with ingenious plotting. Reaching the heights of farcical lunacy, his plays nevertheless contain touches of barbed social comment and allowed him to mention subjects which would have provoked outrage in the hands of more serious dramatists. This volume of new, sparkling translations by Kenneth McLeish contains his two masterpieces, Heart's Desire Hotel (L'Hôtel du libre échange) and Sauce For the Goose (Le Dindon), with three other plays from the peak of his career, The One That Got Away (Monsieur Chasse!), Now You See It (Le System Ribadier) and Pig in a Poke (Chat en poche).

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1472517555

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Feydeau, First to Last

Eight One Act Comedies

By: Georges Feydeau

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Eight One Act Comedies

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Four Farces

By: Georges Feydeau

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Four Farces

By: Georges Feydeau

Wild plots and quicksilver wit characterize the plays of Georges Feydeau. Called the greatest master of French comedy since Moliere by admirers such as Kenneth Tynan, Feydeau reflects the lusty tradition of the French bedroom farce as well as the tough exorbitant humor later to find full expression in the theater of the absurd. The plays offered in this volume represent the major stages of Feydeau's career. The one-act Wooed and Viewed was his first comedy, written in 1880. On the Marry-go-Wrong shows Feydeau on the way to becoming a master of mad imbroglio, a talent that he demonstrates in Not by Bed Alone. Going to Pot is a one-act play of conjugal strife of the emotional intensity that marked his work toward the end of his career.

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1557833052

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Four Farces

By: Georges Feydeau

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Take Her, She's Yours, Or, Till Divorce Do Us Part

Comedy in Three Acts

By: Georges Feydeau

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Take Her, She's Yours, Or, Till Divorce Do Us Part

Comedy in Three Acts

By: Georges Feydeau

Length: 3 acts.

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1557834547

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Cocteau & Feydeau: Thirteen Monologues

By: Jean Cocteau,George Feydeau

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Cocteau & Feydeau: Thirteen Monologues

By: Jean Cocteau,George Feydeau

Original illustrations by Jean Cocteau and Andrzej Klimowski Two of the seven monologues by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) in this edition were written for Édith Piaf. The other five were written for Cocteau’s friend, the celebrated actor Jean Marais, to perform on radio. Although perhaps a minor part of Cocteau’s output of films, plays, poems and ballet scenarios, these exquisite miniatures remain a fascinating form of his dramatic expression. Georges Feydeau (1862-1921) is best known for his enduring farces, such as A Flea In Her Ear, yet he wrote over 20 monologues for actors to perform at charity concerts and in fashionable drawing rooms. The six included in this volume were written over a period of 16 years from 1882. Peter Meyer’s translations of eleven of these monologues were commissioned by the BBC and performed on radio by leading actors including Eileen Atkins, Jill Bennett, Richard Briers, Judi Dench, Alec McCowan and Timothy West. The Liar and I Lost Her have been newly translated for this volume.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1849439257

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A Flea in Her Ear

A Farce-comedy in Three Acts

By: Georges Feydeau

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A Flea in Her Ear

A Farce-comedy in Three Acts

By: Georges Feydeau

Raymonde suspects her husband of Victor infidelity, the plot is complicated by confused identities, revolving beds, a great many doors etc. etc.

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124

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Samuel French, Inc.

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0573609160

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9780573609169

Paradise Hotel

By: Georges Feydeau

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Paradise Hotel

By: Georges Feydeau

In a new translation of Feydeau's farce, a middle-aged man arranges a rendezvous in a small hotel with his best friend's beautiful young wife.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0929587480

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Paradise Hotel

By: Georges Feydeau

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Paradise Hotel

By: Georges Feydeau

In a new translation of Feydeau's farce, a middle-aged man arranges a rendezvous in a small hotel with his best friend's beautiful young wife.

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The Lady from Maxim's

By: Georges Feydeau

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The Lady from Maxim's

By: Georges Feydeau

Farce / 5m, 4f, extras / Unit set A normally sober doctor awakens to find that he brought two things home from Maxim's last night: a hangover and a lady of the evening. His wife is diverted from discovering the tart by one of her famous visitations from a popular saint. The doctor's uncle returns after a long army tour in Africa and promptly mistakes the lady from Maxim's for his nephew's wife. Uncle's immediate business is marrying off a niece to a young soldier who turns out to be the true

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0573611378

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A Flea in Her Ear

A Farce-comedy in Three Acts

By: Georges Feydeau

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A Farce-comedy in Three Acts

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Raymonde suspects her husband of Victor infidelity, the plot is complicated by confused identities, revolving beds, a great many doors etc. etc.

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I Never Cheat on My Husband

A Play in Three Acts

By: Georges Feydeau

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I Never Cheat on My Husband

A Play in Three Acts

By: Georges Feydeau

Georges Feydeau (1862-1921) wrote some 60 comedies, farces, and comic monologues; I Never Cheat on My Husband was one of his last productions (1914). Often considered the greatest French comic genius since Moliere, Feydeau wrote frequently about the relations between men and women in modern society. In this play, the professional artist and sexual predator, Saint Franquet, begins his pursuit of Micheline, the hitherto faithful wife of Plantaredi, in the very first act. Their off-and-on "war" between the sexes is both convincing and riotously funny, particularly when both characters begin getting on each other's nerves. Then Micheline discovers that her husband has been having an affair of his own, and she sets out to get her revenge. The humor is frank, edgy, and very modern. This is one of the great French comedies of the past century

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Borgo Press

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1479401625

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9781479401628

The Lady from Maxim's

By: Georges Feydeau

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The Lady from Maxim's

By: Georges Feydeau

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The French Have a Word for it

By: Georges Feydeau

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The French Have a Word for it

By: Georges Feydeau

Little Theatre Comedy Georges Feydeau, Translated by Barnett Shaw Characters: 13 male, 6 female 3 interior scenes The action revolves around a flirt who refuses lovers so long as her husband is faithful. A wild plot to entrap her stumblingly husband in flagrante delicto becomes so frenetic that the seducers, angry husbands, spying wives, innocent maids, pubescent bellboys and police inspectors lose track of who's in bed with whom. "Sheer delight." Dallas Downtown News.

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Samuel French, Inc.

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0573618860

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9780573618864

An Absolute Turkey

By: George Feydeau

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An Absolute Turkey

By: George Feydeau

Georges Feydeau, master of farce, displays all his tricks of the trade in this witty, seamless and acutely funny translation. An Absolute Turkey was a West End hit following its London premiere at the Globe Theatre in 1993. “Sharp, natty, decorously indecent dialogue” - Sunday Times

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