Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Overture xiii
6. A Queer Premiere: Jean Cocteau’s The Typewriter 1
7. Collabo Beefcake and Resistant Reception: Ambiguity in André Obey’s Eight Hundred Meters and The Suppliant Women 35
8. French Identity: The Intended Audience for Jean Giraudoux’s The Apollo of Marsac 61
9. The Limits of Opportunism: Simone Jollivet’s The Princess of Ursins 81
10. The Politics of Intention: Jean Anouilh’s Antigone via Oreste 105
11. The Politics of Reception: Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Flies 129
12. A Politics of Sexuality: Henry de Montherlant’s Nobody’s Son 145
13. The Politics of Impersonation: Casting and Recasting Paul Claudel’s The Satin Slipper 175
14. Catching The Last Métro: François Truffaut’s Portrayal of Occupation Drama and Sexuality 191
15. Finale 207
16. Notes 211
17. Bibliography 235
18. Name Index and Literary Works 249