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the maids and deathwatch two plays by jean genet
the two plays collected in this volume represent genets first attempts to analyze the mores of a bourgeois society he had previously been content simply to vilify . in the maids two domestic workers deeply resentful of their inferior social position try to revenge themselves against society by destroying their employer . when their attempt to betray their mistresss lover to the police fails and they are in danger of being found out they dream of murdering madame little aware of the true power behind their darkest fantasy . br in deathwatch two convicts try to impress a third who is on the verge of achieving legendary status in criminal circles . but neither realizes the lengths to which they will go to gain respect or that in the end nothing they can do including murder will get them what they are searching for .
paperback grove press 1989 isbn 080215056x
abridged n isbn 13 9780802150561 number of pages 166 publisher pgw release date 62135769600000