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Ghéon, Henri
Ghéon, Henri [ Henri Vanglon] (1875–1943), French religious dramatist. His early plays, among them Le Pauvre sous l'escalier (1913), were produced by Copeau at the Vieux-Colombier; but from 1920 he was engaged in writing and directing almost 100 plays on religious and biblical themes for schools, colleges, and parish churches. The best known of these were L'Histoire du jeune Bernard de Menthon (1925), translated by Barry Jackson as The Marvellous History of St Bernard and produced at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and the Malvern Festival in 1925, and Le Noël sur la place (1935), translated as Christmas in the Market Place, which had many amateur productions in Britain. It was originally presented by Les Compagnons de Jeux, a semi-amateur company organized in 1932. Like the best of Ghéon's work, it combines poetry and theatricality with a simplicity appropriate to his intended audiences.
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Ghéon, Henri." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Ghéon, Henri." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-GhonHenri.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Ghéon, Henri." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-GhonHenri.html |
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Ghéon, Henri
Ghéon, Henri, pseudonym of Henri-Léon Vangeon (1875–1944), French Catholic writer. He tried to build up a Christian theatre, producing his own plays and working with a company of young RCs which he founded in 1924. Many of his works dealt with the lives of saints and other sacred themes; their deliberate naïvety of tone sought to reproduce the atmosphere of medieval hagiography. His biographies appealed to a wide public.
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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Ghéon, Henri." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Ghéon, Henri." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-GhonHenri.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Ghéon, Henri." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-GhonHenri.html |
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