The Virtuous Island
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The Virtuous Island is a 1956 English adaptation by Maurice Valency
of the play Supplément au voyage de Cook written in 1935 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux
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Supplément au voyage de Cook was first performed on 21 November 1935 in Paris at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in a production by Louis Jouvet
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Maurice Valency
Maurice Valency was a playwright, author, critic, and popular professor of Comparative Literature at Columbia University, best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by Jean Giraudoux and Friedrich Duerrenmatt. He wrote several original plays, but is best known for his adaptations of...
of the play Supplément au voyage de Cook written in 1935 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux
Jean Giraudoux
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy...
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Original productions
Supplément au voyage de Cook was translated into English as The Virtuous Island (1956) by Maurice ValencyMaurice Valency
Maurice Valency was a playwright, author, critic, and popular professor of Comparative Literature at Columbia University, best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by Jean Giraudoux and Friedrich Duerrenmatt. He wrote several original plays, but is best known for his adaptations of...
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Supplément au voyage de Cook was first performed on 21 November 1935 in Paris at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in a production by Louis Jouvet
Louis Jouvet
Louis Jouvet was a renowned French actor, director, and theatre director.- Life :Overcoming speech impediments and sometimes paralyzing stage fright as a young man, Jouvet's first important association was with Jacques Copeau's Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier, beginning in 1913...
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