Feydeau, First to Last: Eight One-Act Comedies

Feydeau was the greatest of a great age of French farceurs and the first to enter the modern repertory. Of the more than 40 plays Feydeau wrote over a third were one-acts. In this volume Shapiro has selected and translated eight of these one-act plays among them Feydeau’s first and last works. Includes: Ladies’ Man U Wooed and Viewed U Romance in A Flat U Fit to Be Tried or Stepbrothers in Crime U Mixed Doubles U The Boor Hug U Caught with His Trance Down U Tooth and Consequences or Hortense Said: No Skin Off My Ass!