The Maids and Deathwatch: Two Plays by Jean Genet

The Maids and Deathwatch: Two Plays

Genet, Jean

Jean Genet

166 pages missing pub info (editions)

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The two plays collected in this volume represent Genet's first attempts to analyze the mores of a bourgeois society he had previously been content simply to vilify. In The Maids, two domestic workers, deeply resentful of their inferior social posi...

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dark 100%
funny 50%
tense 50%

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medium 25%

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