The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco (Book Analysis)
Résumé
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco, a short play which makes us truly think about language and how we use it. The play focuses on two couples, the Smiths and the Martins, who are at the Smiths’ house for dinner. Through his skilful manipulation of language, with techniques including repetition, tautologies and wordplay, Ionesco makes it painfully obvious how little language actually means. It is therefore hardly surprising that the play was not received well when it premiered in Paris in 1950, and was only fully appreciated many years after Ionesco first wrote it. Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian-French playwright, who is widely known as one of the foremost figures of French avant-garde theatre. He died in Paris in 1994.
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Caractéristiques
Collection : BrightSummaries.com
Publication : 24 mai 2017
Intérieur : Noir & blanc
Support(s) : eBook [ePub]
Contenu(s) : ePub
Protection(s) : Marquage social (ePub)
Taille(s) : 1,17 Mo (ePub)
Langue(s) : Anglais
Code(s) CLIL : 3024, 3032, 3660
EAN13 eBook [ePub] : 9782806296641
EAN13 (papier) : 9782806296658
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