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enlarge cover The Collected Stage Drama of Marie-Claire Blais by Marie-Claire Blais Translated with an introduction by Nigel Spencer Drama ISBN: 978-1-896951-78-2 6" x 9" Trade Paper $34.95 / 400 pages BISAC Codes DRA 013000 Drama/Canadian

The Collected Stage Drama of Marie-Claire Blais by Marie-Claire Blais Translated with an introduction by Nigel Spencer Known as the most important voice in Québécois fiction of the last fifty years for novels like A Season in the Life of Emmanuel and These Festive Nights, Marie-Claire Blais is also an accomplished playwright. Her works have been performed in French on Radio-Canada and on the stages of Montreal and Quebec City. In her stage plays, as with her radio plays and fiction, Marie-Claire Blais writes from a post-religious world view, but with the strictures of religion firmly in place — a contemporary Dante, writing about good and evil in a civil context. Her characters, however, are more than just symbols; they are real people, struggling with moral dilemmas. The plays included in this edition are evidence of Blais’s great talent when brought to bear on the theatre, including the lost classics, The Execution, Desire, and Envy. About Marie-Claire Blais. About Nigel Spencer.