This is the first book to explore the broad political significance of Genet's performance practice by focusing on his radical experiments, polemical subjects an

When Jean Genet, the enfant terrible of the French theater, died on April 15, 1986, he left a rich and controversial literary legacy. Genet, a homosexual and ex

Jean Genet and the politics of theatre is the first publication to situate the politics of Genet's theatre within the social, spatial and political contexts of

Preliminary Material -- Mapping Political Performances: A Note on the Structure of the Anthology /E.J. Westlake -- Performance as Sepulchre and Mousetrap: Globa

This book is the only introductory text to Genet in English, offering an overview of this key figure in defining and understanding twentieth-century theatre. Th