Plays:
Unless otherwise indicated, the plays were first performed in Paris.
- L'endormie (The Slumberer). Play, 1 act. Written 1882/83. Published
1925. Early version of La lune a la recherche d'elle-mente.
- Tete d'or. Play, 3 acts; verse. Written 1889. Published 1890. Second
version: Written 1895. Published 1901. Produced Théàtre
du Gymnase, Mar. 30, 1919.
- La ville (The City). Play, 3 acts; verse. Written 1890. Published
1893. Second version: Written 1897. Published 1901. Produced Brussels
(in Dutch), Salle Patria, Feb. 24, 1926; Paris, Palais de Chaillot,
Dec. 2, 1955.
- La jeune fille Violaine (The Maid Violaine). Play, 4 acts; verse.
Written 1892. Published 1926. Second version: Written 1898. Published
1901. Produced Salle d'Iena, Mar. 14, 1944. Early version of L'annonce
faite à Marie.
- L'annonce faite à Marie (The Tidings Brought to Mary). Parable,
4 acts and a prologue. Written 1892 (rev. 1910, 1948). Published 1912.
Produced Théàtre de l'Oeuvre, Dec. 20, 1912. Based on
La jeune fille Violaine.
- L'échange (The Exchange). Play, 3 acts. Written 1894. Published
1901. Produced Théàtre du Vieux-Colombier, Jan. 22, 1914.
Second version: Written 1951. Published 1954. Produced Théàtre
Marigny, Dec. 13, 1951.
- L'Agamemnon d'Eschyle (The Agamemnon of Aeschylus). Play. Written
1894. Published 1896 (rev. 1951)
- Le repos du septième jour (Rest on the Seventh Day). Play,
3 acts. Written 1896. Published 1901. Produced Warsaw, Narodny Théàtre,
Dec. 10, 1928
- Partage de midi (Break of Noon). Play, 3 acts; verse. Written 1905.
Published 1906. Produced Théàtre Marigny, Dec. 16, 1948
- L'ôtage (The Hostage). Play. Written 1909. Published 1911.
Produced Théàtre de l'Oeuvre, June 5, 1914.
- Protée (Proteus). Play, 2 acts. Written 1913. Published 1914.
Second version: Written 1926. Published 1927. Produced Amsterdam, Municipal
Theatre, Apr. 4, 1933; Paris, Comédie de Paris, February, 1955.
- Le pain dur (Crusts). Play. Written 1914. Published 1918. Produced
Théàtre de l'Atelier, Mar. 12, 1949.
- La nuit de Noël de 1914 (Christmas Night, 1914). Play, 1 act.
Written 1915. Published 1915.
- Le père humilie (The Humiliation of the Father). Play. Written
1916. Published 1919. Produced Dresden, Schauspielhaus, Nov. 26, 1928;
Paris, Théàtre des Champs-Elysées, May 10, 1946.
- Les Choephores d'Eschyle (The Libation Bearers of Aeschylus). Play.
Written 1916. Published 1920. Produced Brussels, Théàtre
de la Monnaie, Mar. 27, 1935.
- Les Eumenides d'Eschyle (The Eumenides of Aeschylus). Play. Written
1916. Published 1920. Produced Brussels, Théàtre de la
Monnaie, Mar. 27, 1935.
- L'ours et la lune (The Bear and the Moon). Play. Written 1917. Published
1919.
- L'homme et son désir (Man and His Desire). Ballet scenario.
Written 1917. Published 1917.
- La femme et son ombre (The Woman and Her Shadow). Mime drama. Written
1923. Published 1956. Produced Tokyo, Imperial Theatre, March, 1923.
An earlier sketch was written and published in 1922.
- Le soulier de satin, ou Le pire n'est pas toujours sûr (The
Satin Slipper, or The Worst Is Not Sure). Play. Written 1924. Published
1928-1929 (stage version 1944). Produced Comédie-Francaise,
Nov. 27, 1943.
- La parabole du festin (The Parable of the Feast). Parable. Written
1926. Published 1926. Second version: La sagesse, ou La parabole du
festin (Wisdom, or The Parable of the Feast). Written 1935. Published
1939.
- Le livre de Christophe Colomb (The Book of Christopher Columbus).
Play, 2 acts. Written 1927. Published 1933. Produced Berlin, Staatsoper,
May 5, 1930; Paris, Théàtre Marigny, Oct. 1, 1953. Music:
Darius Milhaud.
- Sous le rempart d'Athènes (Under the Rampart of Athens).
Play. Written 1927. Published 1927. Produced Palais de l'Elysée,
1927.
- Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (Joan of Arc at the Stake). Oratorio.
Written 1935. Published 1939. Produced Orleans, Théàtre
Municipal, May 6, 1939.
- Le jet de pierre (Stone Throwing). Suite, 12 movements. Written 1938.
Published 1956.
- L'histoire de Tobie et Sara (Tobias and Sara). Play, 3 acts. Written
1938. Published 1942. Produced Avignon, Sept. 5, 1947.
- La lune d la recherche d'elle-meme (The Moon in Search of Herself).
Radio extravaganza. Written 1947. Published 1956. Based on L'endormie.
- Le ravissement de Scapin (The Rape of Scapin). Play. Written 1949.
Published 1952.
CRITICISM
French
- G. Duhamel, Paul Claudel, Paris, 1913;
- J. de Tonquedoc, L'oeuvre de Paul Claudel, Paris, 1917;
- F. Lefevre, Les sources de Paul Claudel, Paris, 1927;
- L. Chaigne, Le chemin de Paul Claudel, Paris, 1931;
- J. Madaule, Le genie de Paul Claudel, Paris, 1933;
- V. Bindel, Claudel, Paris, 1934; J. Madaule, Le drame de Paul Claudel,
Paris, 1936;
- H. Colleye, La poesie catholique de Claudel, Liege, 1945;
- A. Moliton, Aspects de Paul Claudel, Paris, 1945;
- G. Truc, Paul Claudel, Paris, 1945;
- C. Chonez, Introduction d Paul Claudel, Paris, 1947;
- J. Samson, Paul Claudel, poete-musicien, Geneva, 1947;
- L. Barjon, Paul Claudel, Paris, 1953;
- J. Andrieu, La foi dans !'oeuvre de Paul Claudel, Paris, 1955;
- H. Guillemin, Claudel et son art d'ecrire, Paris, 1955;
- J. Madaule, Paul Claudel, dramaturge, Paris, 1956;
- J. Bastien, L'oeuvre dramatique de Paul Claudel, Reims, 1957;
- H. J. W. van Hoorn, Poesie et mysticisme. Paul Claudel, poete chretien,
Geneva, 1957;
- E. Beaumont, Le sens de 1'amoui dans le Théàtre de
Claudel: Le theme de Beatrice, Paris, 1958;
- J.-C. Berton, Shakespeare et Claudel, Geneva, 1958;
- S. Fumet, Claudel, Paris, 1958;
- R. Farabet, Le jeu de I'acteur dans le Théàtre de Claudel,
Paris, 1960;
- H. Mondor, Claudel plus intime, Paris, 1960;
- L. Chaigne, Vie de Paul Claudel et genese du son oeuvre, Tours, 1961;
- M. Lioure, L'esthetique dramatique de Paul Claudel, Paris, 1971;
- A. Blanc, Claudel, Paris, 1973; Aux sources de la verite du thedtrs
moderne (Coll. London, Canada, 1972), Paris, 1974.
English
- M. Ryan, Introduction to Paul Claudel, Cork, 1951;
- E. Beaumont, The Theme of Beatrice in the Plays of Claudel, London,
1954;
- J. Chiari, The Poetic Drama of Paul Claudel, New York, 1954;
- L. Chaigne, Paul Claudel: The Man and the Mystic, tr. by P. de Fontnouvelle,
New York, 1961;
- J. C. de Labriolle, Claudel and the English-Speaking World, a Critical
Bibliography, ed. & tr. by R. Little, London, 1973.
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