Amphitryon 38

Amphitryon 38
Written by Jean Giraudoux
Characters Amphitryon, Alcmene,
Jupiter, Mercury , Leda
Date premiered 8 November 1929
Place premiered Comedie des Champs-Elysees in Paris
Original language French
Subject The god Jupiter intrudes into the faithful marriage of two mortals
Genre Drama
Setting Mythological ancient Greece
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Amphitryon 38 is a play written in 1929 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, the number in the title being Giraudoux's whimsical approximation of how many times the story had been told on-stage previously.

Original productions

Amphitryon 38 was translated into English in 1938 by S. N. Behrman[1] in 1964 by Phyllis La Farge and Peter H. Judd[2] and in 1967 by Roger Gellert.[3]

Amphitryon 38 was first performed on 8 November 1929[4] in Paris at the Comedie des Champs-Elysees in a production by Louis Jouvet.[5]

An English production of Amphitryon 38 opened at New York's Shubert Theatre on 1 November 1937.[6]

References

  1. ^ Cohen, Robert (1968), Jean Giraudoux; Three Faces of Destiny, p. 158, University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  2. ^ Giraudoux, Jean (1964), Three Plays, vol 2, Translated by Phyllis La Farge and Peter H. Judd, Hill and Wang, New York
  3. ^ Giraudoux, Jean (1967), Plays, vol 2, Translated by Roger Gellert, Oxford University Press, London
  4. ^ Grossvogel, David I. (1958), 20th Century French Drama, p. 341, Columbia University Press, New York.
  5. ^ Inskip, Donald, (1958), Jean Giraudoux, The Making of a Dramatist, p. 182, Oxford University Press, New York.
  6. ^ IBD Internet Broadway Database, Retrieved 24 September 2010.