Selected Plays of Alphonse Allais

ISBN-13: 9780692275085 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014

Alphonse Allais; Doug Skinner

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This collection of his rare theatrical texts includes original translations-never before published in English-of ten monologues, three one-act plays, and twelve shorter dialogues, skits and burlesques drawn from Allais's columns in such publications as LE CHAT NOIR and L'HYDROPATHE. In addition to Doug Skinner's fascinating notes on the texts, you'll find an appendix of scarce photographs from the Paris production of "Le Pauvre Bougre et Le Bon Genie." This delightful compilation is proto-Dada at its most delicious