Giraudoux
Americannoun
noun
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What Sloan has done, albeit with lesser aesthetic power and wit, is what Anouilh and Giraudoux have done with the Greek myths.
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The late French dramatist Jean Giraudoux plays Shavian hob with the apocryphal tale of the Jewish heroine who saved Israel by killing the Assyrian general Holofernes.
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It opens in the best Giraudoux style of artificial high comedy.
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The late French Dramatist Jean Giraudoux cleverly plays Freudian and Shavian hob with the apocryphal tale of the Jewish heroine who saved Israel by killing the Assyrian general Holofernes.
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Giraudoux cleverly lets his characters remark how tragedy is jostling farce, or drama is encroaching on comedy.
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