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 Jean Cocteau Quotes
3,052 words, approx. 10 pages
 Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau ( 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963 ) French poet, novelist, painter, and filmaker. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Le Coq et l’Arlequin (1918) 1.2 A Call to Order (1926) 1.3 Opium (1929) 1.4 Diary of an Unknown (1988)... 
 
| Name: |
Jean Cocteau | | Birth Date: |
1889 | | Death Date: |
1963 | | Place of Birth: |
France | | Nationality: |
French | | Gender: |
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 Biography of Jean Cocteau
429 words, approx. 1 pages
The French writer Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) explored nostalgia for childhood and adolescence, frustration in love, and fear of solitude and death. Jean Cocteau was born in a suburb of Paris and brought up in a well-to-do home frequented by the artistic... summary from source:
 Biography of Jean (Maurice Eugene Clement) Cocteau
11,385 words, approx. 38 pages
 Jean Cocteau's role in twentieth-century French poetry is not unlike that of the rather too talkative Sphinx in his play, La Machine infernale (1934; translated as The Infernal Machine, 1936), who asks of Oedipus the well-known, oft-repeated riddle but... summary from source:
Biography of Jean (Maurice Eugene Clement) Cocteau
6,006 words, approx. 20 pages
Jean Cocteau was first introduced to the Parisian public in 1908, when he was eighteen. The colorful and popular actor Edouard de Max, with colleagues from the Comédie-Française, gave a public reading of his friend's poems at a theater on...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Jean Cocteau Information
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Medieval 16th century · 17th century 18th century · 19th century 20th century ·...
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 Newsweek International Mystery Man.(Jean Cocteau)
10/06/2003: 1,053 words, approx. 4 pages "The worst tragedy for a poet," Jean Cocteau wrote in 1926, "is to be admired through being misunderstood." Yet that is what has happened to Cocteau. Indeed, he may be the most famous 20th-century artist whose works remain unknown. A respected poet in the... summary from source:
Cineaste Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown.
06/22/1993: 3,022 words, approx. 10 pages Is there an example in the history of cinema of a poet and writer turned filmmaker to compare with that of Jean Cocteau? One other name comes to mind--Pier Paolo Pasolini. But Cocteau's life, because it was longer and because he lived earlier, spans... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Virginia Zabriskie: Her Paris Adventure Showed Atget, Abbott
2/20/2005: 749 words, approx. 3 pagesIt's one of the functions of anniversary celebrations to evoke happy memories, and on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Zabriskie Gallery in New York, I want to recall an event from the spring of 1979. To do so, however,... summary from source:
The New York Observer Going Bonkers at the Opera: Glimmerglass Flirts With Chaos
8/7/2005: 1,754 words, approx. 6 pagesOpera, it might be said, is a kind of madhouse: Musically, it pushes vocal capacities to the breaking point; dramatically, its protagonists are often in the grip of something so grievous that suicide may be the only way out. In Cooperstown, N.Y., where Glimmerglass Opera...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Chester Clayton Long
9,209 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following essay, Long contrasts the mythical, dramatic, and cinematic versions of Orphée, emphasizing Cocteau's versions of the Greek myth.
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Critical Essay by Mark Franko
8,436 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following essay, Franko discusses the presentation of gay identity and gender roles in Cocteau's “Une leçon de théâtre: Le numéro Barbette” and the Butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno's performance of the piece Suiren.
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Critical Essay by Jennifer Hatte
7,365 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Hatte examines the significance of the appearance of snow in Les Enfants terribles and its meaning to the “mythology” of Cocteau's other works.
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