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Tessa (play)

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Tessa
Written byJean Giraudoux
CharactersTessa Badamo
Date premiered14 November 1934
Place premieredThéâtre de l'Athénée in Paris
Original languageFrench
SubjectOvercoming fears and hardtimes
GenreDrama
Setting18th century, Scotland

Tessa (French title: Tessa, la nymphe au cœur fidèle) is a play written in 1934 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux. It is a translation and adaptation of a 1926 stage version by Margaret Kennedy and Basil Dean of the former's 1924 novel The Constant Nymph.

Original productions

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Tessa was first performed on 14 November 1934[1] in Paris at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in a production by Louis Jouvet.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Grossvogel, David I. (1958), 20th Century French Drama, p. 341, Columbia University Press, New York.
  2. ^ Inskip, Donald, (1958), Jean Giraudoux, The Making of a Dramatist, p. 182, Oxford University Press, New York.