Download or read book New Tragedy and Comedy in France, 1945-70 written by Peter Norrish and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-06-18 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study about the reshaping of tragedy and comedy in serious French drama in the quarter century following World War II. It offers an introduction to the most important plays of the period, which include those of Sartre, Arrabal, Beckett, Ionesco, Camus, Montherlant, Adamov and Genet.