Modern French theatre from Giraudoux to Beckett. [electronic resource] In collaboration with June Beckelman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Theatre resurgent -- pt. 1. A theatre of the supernatural: Theatre as proposition: Jean Giraudoux -- The double game: Jean Cocteau -- The universe as parable: Paul Claudel -- pt. 2. Back to man: The agony of solitary souls: Henry de Montherlant -- From anguish to play: Jean Anouilh and Armand Salacrou -- Man and his acts: Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus -- pt. 3. Revolution continued: Poetry and discovery -- A world out of control: Eugène Ionesco -- Existence on stage: Samuel Beckett -- Conclusion: The gaping mask.