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A Study Guide for Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit"
A Study Guide for Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit"
A Study Guide for Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit"
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A Study Guide for Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit"

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A Study Guide for Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama for Students for all of your research needs.
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Release dateSep 8, 2015
ISBN9781535829625
A Study Guide for Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit"

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    A Study Guide for Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit" - Gale

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    No Exit

    Jean-Paul Sartre

    1944

    Introduction

    Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit is considered by many to be the author’s best play and most accessible dramatization of his philosophy of existentialism. Sartre wrote the original draft in two weeks at the Cafe Flore in Paris. Titled Huis clos in the original French, it was first produced in Paris’s Vieux-Colombier Theater. At the time, during World War II, this part of France was occupied by Nazi Germany. Sartre deliberately wrote No Exit as a one-act play so that theater-goers would not be kept past the German-imposed curfew. Many forms of entertainment, including plays, had to be approved by German censors. During rehearsals, clearance to perform the play was given and taken away several times. Despite such setbacks, No Exit opened in the spring of 1944, and it was an immediate success. The original production played in Paris for several years, even after the war ended and Paris was liberated. Parisian audiences appreciated Sartre’s subtle message of resistance and implied subversiveness. Critics, however, gave it mixed reviews, mostly because of the social and political climate of the time. The fact that Inez was a lesbian was an extremely controversial point for both audiences and critics

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