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The Infernal Machine and Other Plays
by Jean Cocteau, Albert Bermel, John Savacool, Dudley Fitts, W.H. Auden, Mary Hoeck, E.E. Cummings

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• Format: paperback, 412 pages
• Publisher: New Directions
• Release date: January 17, 1964
• Characters: Sphinx (Greek mythology)
• ISBN: 9780811200226 (0811200221)
• Author: Jean Cocteau, Albert Bermel, John Savacool, Dudley Fitts, W.H. Auden, Mary Hoeck, E.E. Cummings
• Language: english
• Genres: plays, france, theatre, drama, fiction, classics, school, literature

About The Book

Among the great figures who pioneered the modern movement in world literature, none showed himself more versatile than France’s Jean Cocteau. Poet, novelist, critic, artist, actor, film-maker, Cocteau was also one of the greatest dramatists Europe has produced, with over a dozen plays which are frequently revived, not only ion France, but in translation in many other countries.

For this collection, fine translations of four full-length plays, one short play, and the “Speaker’s Text” for the Cocteau-Stravinsky opera Oedipus Rex have been selected. The longer plays (The Infernal Machine, Orpheus, Bacchus, Knights of the Round Table) are re-creations of classic myth and legend — poetic and highly original interpretations of certain timeless themes which have inspired great drama through the ages. The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party is, by contrast, merely a “curtain-raiser,” but remarkable as un jeu d’esprit, revealing the wit and psychological penetration for which Cocteau is famous.

The Translations:

The Infernal Machine by Albert Bermel

Orpheus by John K. Savacool

The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party by Dudley Fitts

The Knights of the Round table by W.H. Auden

Bacchus by Mary C. Hoeck

The Speaker’s Text of Oedipus Rex by E.E. Cummings

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