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  <title><![CDATA[The Maids and Deathwatch: Two Plays by Jean Genet]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;The two plays collected in this volume represent Genet&amp;#8217;s first attempts to analyze the mores of a bourgeois society he had previously been content simply to vilify. &lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">16</original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">2</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1954</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Maids and Deathwatch: Two Plays by Jean Genet</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jean Genet]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Maids&quot; excited me with its phenomenal (submerged) representation of BDSM dyke roleplay and its class critique. <br/><br/>Sartre's gender analysis in the introduction, however, can fly a kite. Jean-Paul's examination of self-punishment and consciousness in &quot;The Maids&quot; spark...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21300265">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[علی]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Jun 22 03:16:06 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jun 26 10:09:28 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[An exciting way of living behind different Masques, how Solange and Claire (The Maids) play as different personalities, act as each other's role, instead of Lady's role, ... kind of ritual way of watching yourself on scene in front of The Others ...<br/>A shaking play about love and hate between th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2243295">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48816506">
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    <name><![CDATA[Michaela]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Mar 10 11:16:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Mar 10 11:24:29 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The plays were definitely really good and I would love love love to see them performed, but I think one of the things that amused me most was Sartre's introduction. He was of course an admirer of Genet's work and he and a few influential others kept the man out of jail for the latter part of his lif...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48816506">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38778890">
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    <name><![CDATA[Meg]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Nov 27 19:32:29 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 27 19:34:34 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[gender roles, gender roles!<br/><br/>i have to admit that if i see one more production of The Maids with an all male cast i'm going to barf a bit in my mouth. That being said, i love reading genet more than seeing it produced - however, that is possibly due to seeing so-so versions of it onstage.  i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38778890">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12154604">
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    <name><![CDATA[tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 10 09:15:38 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Feb 09 16:00:48 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw The Maids performed once by the Towson State theater department.  I saw them perform an Ionescu play too.  &amp; maybe Neil Simon's (?) version of &quot;Awakenings&quot;?  A pretty good selection of plays brought to us by Paul (?) Berman (sp?) of sd theater department.  Strange to remember b/c I h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12154604">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1547931">
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    <name><![CDATA[MM]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed May 30 13:25:56 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 20 08:34:46 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Genet is brilliant, what can I say. In these two plays he offers a scathing critique of the bourgeoisie, at the same time as identifying the ways in which we all are shaped by our work, and our working conditions. And the context is whirligig (as Sartre would call it) – criminals and saints, love,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1547931">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8682436">
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    <name><![CDATA[Tosh]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Nov 04 23:01:42 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 20 07:41:18 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My deepest regret so far in life is that I haven't sat down in an audience to watch a Genet play.  &quot;The Maids&quot; is such a classic work from the 50's (?).   Also one can't avoid this book in an used bookstore.  Every (decent) used bookstore has this title in their Drama section.  Get it! Gen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8682436">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32881251">
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 14 18:04:33 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 14 18:06:05 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I did this play in HS and I was the understudy for all three roles as well as the stage manager.  To this day I find many parts of it to understand but I love it for reasons of nostalgia and because the language is poetic and fresh, even now.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32881251]]></url>
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    <review id="12142926">
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  <date_updated>Tue Jan 15 10:17:52 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A classic - looking at it for Madshag over the weekend, so I revisited it this week. Once upon a time it was my most successful POD project ever.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12142926]]></url>
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    <review id="28544182">
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Jean Genet. You have to completely immerse yourself into his world, to get what he's trying to say.  So funny too.]]></body>
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    <review id="493396">
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  <date_added>Fri Mar 30 05:00:16 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Haven't read Deathwatch. Only The maids. What I like about it is not the absurdity. It is the diabolism !]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/493396]]></url>
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    <review id="22138852">
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    <body><![CDATA[GET A LOAD OF THIS. &quot;THE MAIDS&quot;. SR, YOU WOULD LOVE IT.]]></body>
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    <review id="35282813">
    <user id="1615647">
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    <body><![CDATA[A brilliantly cruel, hard view of society.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="13904831">
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    <body><![CDATA[Les Bonnes is creepy. ]]></body>
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