Jailbird / Georges Feydeau ; translated by Kenneth McLeish.
| Author/creator | Feydeau, Georges author. |
| Other author | McLeish, Kenneth, 1940-1997, translator. |
| Other author | Feydeau, Georges, 1862-1921 |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | London : Bloomsbury, [2013] |
| Copyright Date | ©2013 |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Drama online |
| Uniform title | Gibier de potence. English |
| Summary | 'Jailbird' takes place in the apartment of the singer Pépita who is struggling to ignore her cuckolded husband, Plumard, as she waits for the arrival of her admirer Taupinier. Into the mix comes the school-teacher Grumpard, posing pseudonymously as Lemercier, a debonair man-about-town, whose sole desire is to meet with the singer he admires from afar. The lovers though mistake him for a murderer-at-large, also named Lemercier, and go to great lengths to protect themselves from the threat they imagine he poses. 'Jailbird' was first produced in 1894. |
| General note | Previously issued in print: in Plays two. London: Methuen Drama, 2002. |
| General note | Translated from the French. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 28, 2013). |
| Genre/form | Drama. |
| Standard identifier# | 10.5040/9781408169551.00000026 |