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Article: Jacques Copeau: Biography of a Theatre.(Review)
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- Theatre History Studies
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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Jacques Copeau: Biography of a Theatre. By Maurice Kurtz. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000; pp. xviii + 181. $34.95 cloth.
A quality of elusiveness has stubbornly persisted throughout the course of academic investigation into the work of the French theatre director, Jacques Copeau. The 50-plus years since his death have witnessed the publication of numerous books, dissertations, essays and articles, all with an eye toward illuminating the essential qualities of this theatre theorist, artist and practitioner. And still we are left with a portrait of paradox: Copeau, a theatre artist and renovator whom Jean Louis-Barrault heralded as "the ...