Publisher's Synopsis
Feydeau was the greatest of a great age of French farceurs and the first to enter the modern repertory. Of the more than 40 plays Feydeau wrote over a third were one-acts. In this volume Shapiro has selected and translated eight of these one-act plays among them Feydeau's first and last works. Includes: Ladies' Man Û Wooed and Viewed Û Romance in A Flat Û Fit to Be Tried or Stepbrothers in Crime Û Mixed Doubles Û The Boor Hug Û Caught with His Trance Down Û Tooth and Consequences or Hortense Said: No Skin Off My Ass!
