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'Dirty Hands' is a political drama written by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, first staged in 1948. Set in the fictional country of Illyria during World War II, the play centers on a young bourgeois intellectual who joins a communist party and is ordered to assassinate a political leader. It de...
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Highly regarded Sartre drama, durable political-philosophical debate, widely studied, with some criticism of schematic argumentation.
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The Flies (French: Les Mouches) is a 1943 play by French philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre. It reimagines the ancient Greek myth of Electra and Orestes, focusing on Orestes's assassination of his mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. Written and produced during the German occupation of...
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Major Sartre play with strong existentialist reputation, politically important, though less theatrically canonical than No Exit.
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