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Roger Planchon' s Gilles de Rais : A Liturgy of Evil

1982; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 25; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3138/md.25.3.363

1712-5286

Rosette C. Lamont,

French Literature and Criticism

In choosing to subtitle his Gilles de Rais "Miracle en dix tableaux," Roger Planchon — the famous director of the TNP (now located at Villeurbanne, a suburb of Lyon) and, as is less known, particularly outside of France, an increasingly prolific, adventurous, poetic, and even metaphysical dramatist stresses the liturgical aspects of a "Bluebeard" drama featuring the mysterious hero/antihero of the fifteenth century.