Maeterlinck: Pelléas et Melisande, with Les Aveugles, L'Intruse, Intérieur

by Maurice Maeterlinck

Overview

This edition of Maeterlinck's "Peleas et Melisande" includes English language introduction and notes, and is designed to make accessible a classic text which heralded the ethos of modernism of the late 20th century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853995514
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/25/1999
Series:	French Texts
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Maurice Maeterlinck was a Belgian playwright and essayist who developed an international reputation in the late nineteenth century, culminating in being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911. His plays were a key part of Symbolist theatre, an experimental theatre movement that spread across Europe, drawing in some of the great playwrights of the age. Strindberg declared, on reading Maeterlinck, 'he struck me like a new country and a new age'. His influence can be felt on writers from Chekhov to Samuel Beckett and beyond.