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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Maids Information
381 words, approx. 1 pages
 The Maids (Les Bonnes) is a 1947 play by the French writer Jean Genet. Genet based his play on the infamous Papin sisters, Lea and Christine, who brutally murdered their employer and her daughter in Le Mans, France, in 1933. Solange and Claire are two... 
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 Guns Magazine Chamber Maid.
10/01/2001: 302 words, approx. 1 pages When the going gets tough, the tough call a maid -- a Chamber Maid, that is. The Chamber Maid(tm) is a clever cleaning tool for scrubbing the chamber of a firearm that cannot be cleaned from the breech. Proper cleaning of a firearm... summary from source:
The Washington Post The Princess and the Maid
07/07/2002: 447 words, approx. 2 pages IN THE FIGHT to protect immigrant domestic workers from exploitation and abuse, there have been some victories, such as the jail sentence handed down to a Gaithersburg man whose family kept a Brazilian woman as a live-in slave for nearly 20 years. There have... summary from source:
 AP News Report: Sri Lankan maids overworked
11/14/2007: 808 words, approx. 3 pagesForeign housemaids in the oil-rich Gulf sometimes work 21-hour days without medical care, enough food, or the right to go home, and they also face violence and harassment, a human rights report said Wednesday.Dubai's government, shaken by a rash of recent labor protests, quickly disputed... summary from source:
AP News N.Y. slave-case prosecutor mocks defense
12/11/2007: 264 words, approx. 1 pagesTwo Indonesian housekeepers who say they were abused and forced into servitude by a millionaire couple concocted many of the stories they told federal prosecutors, a defense attorney said Tuesday."Nobody saw anything except what Enung and Samirah wanted them to see," attorney Stephen Scaring said...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Christopher Lane
13,738 words, approx. 46 pages
In the following essay, Lane examines Genet's conception of his play The Maids as a failure in light of his belief that modern theater was too “reassuring” to audiences.
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Critical Essay by Gary Day
6,754 words, approx. 23 pages
In the following essay, Day considers the influence of Antonin Artaud on Genet with regard to The Maids.
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Critical Essay by Paula Kamenish
5,611 words, approx. 19 pages
In the following essay, Kamenish analyzes the psychological strategies of both the characters and audience of The Maids in terms of game theory.
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