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(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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Gianluca Baldocchi
reviewed Feydeau, First to Last: Eight One-Act Comedies on January 07, 2012
Feydeau, First to Last: Eight One-Act Comedies
Georges Feydeau is famous for his farces, but having read this book, I'm not sure what I would call a farce. To me, these seemed like adult-themed sitcoms. There is an absurdity to them, but not much more than I Love Lucy or Three's Company. In my mind, farce is a bit more extreme. (Granted, the wordplay is lost in translation.)
I only read two of the plays, Mixed Doubles and Tooth or Consequences. They presented amusing situations, but the characters are not very likeable. There definitely seems to be a misogynistic tendency in these works. There is a darkness underlying these plays.
I'm not familiar with Feydeau's longer plays (like A Flea in Her Ear), but I didn't think these were funny or compelling. I didn't read the whole book, but I wouldn't recommend this to anyone other than avid Feydeau enthusiast.
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