Maurice Valency
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American writer
Why Is Maurice Valency Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Maurice Valency was a playwright, author, critic, and popular professor of Comparative Literature at Columbia University, best known for his award-winning adaptations of plays by Jean Giraudoux and Friedrich Dürrenmatt. He wrote several original plays, but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others. Valency's version of The Madwoman of Chaillot would become the basis of the Jerry Herman musical Dear World on Broadway.
Maurice Valency's Published Works
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Published Works
- The flower and the castle: An introduction to modern drama (1975) (24)
- The Cart and the Trumpet: The Plays of George Bernard Shaw (1973) (18)
- The breaking string : the plays of Anton Chekhov (1968) (14)
- In Praise of Love: An Introduction to the Love-Poetry of the Renaissance (1976) (10)
- The end of the world : an introduction to contemporary drama (1983) (8)
- The Tragedies of Herod and Mariamne. (1941) (7)
- The Breaking String: The Plays of Anton Chekhov (1968) (5)
- The tragedies of Herod & Mariamne (1940) (5)
- The End of the World (1980) (2)
- A Pirandello Quintet (1983) (1)
- Jean Giraudoux: Four Plays (1958) (1)
- Chekhov and His Prose@@@The Breaking String (1967) (0)
- Tragedies of Blood (1940) (0)
- The Contributors (1994) (0)
- Chronological List of the Mariamne Plays (1940) (0)
- Renaissance Theory of Love.John Charles Nelson (1959) (0)
- The palace of pleasure : an anthology of the novella (1960) (0)
- The Pilgrimage of Life.Samuel C. Chew (1964) (0)
- Tales Out of School: The Great Duke of Florence (1981) (0)
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