Song of Songs is an English adaptation of the play Cantique des Cantiques written in 1938 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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Plot summary

The President is at a table of in Parisian cafe waiting for his young lover, Florence. When she arrives she announces that she is going to marry Jerome, a young man she has just met.

Original productions

Cantique des Cantiques was translated into English by John Raikes, in the Tulane Drama Review (1959), and by Herma Briffault, in Barry Ulanov, Makers of Modern Theatre (1961).

Cantique des Cantiques was first performed on 12 October 1938 in Paris at the Comedie Française 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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