Edith Piaf

Standard Name: Piaf, Edith

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Performance of text Pam Gems
PG 's playPiaf, produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company , opened at The Other Place in Stratford.
Gems, Pam. Three Plays. Penguin, 1985.
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Wandor, Michelene, editor. Plays by Women: Volume Three. Methuen, 1984.
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Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Pam Gems
It is one of several plays in which PGcuts her heroines free of the romantic context in which they have been enclosed and returns them to the rough realities of common life.
Worth, Katharine. “Images of Women in Modern English Theater”. Feminine Focus: The New Women Playwrights, edited by Enoch Brater, Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. 3-24.
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PG

Timeline

By July 1955: Françoise Sagan, aged eighteen, repeated...

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By July 1955

Françoise Sagan , aged eighteen, repeated in England the previous year's sensational success in France of her novel Bonjour Tristesse: the English version was by Irene Ash .
British Book News. British Council.
(1955): 1138
Corbett, Anne. “Françoise Sagan”. The Guardian, 27 Sept. 2004, p. 23.
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Chrisafis, Angelique. “Bonjour Françoise: France in thrall to Sagan”. The Guardian, 31 May 2008, p. 25.
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11 October 1963: French singer Edith Piaf died, physically...

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11 October 1963

French singer Edith Piaf died, physically burned out at the age of forty-seven. Her friend the writer and artist Jean Cocteau died later the same day, after beginning to write an obituary for her.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(12 October 1963): 10

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