Siegfried (play)

Siegfried
Siegfried
Written by	Jean Giraudoux
Characters	Siegfried, Eva, Jacques, Zelten, Genevieve
Date premiered	3 May 1928
Place premiered	Comédie des Champs-Élysées in Paris
Original language	French
Subject	An injured French soldier with amnesia becomes a German
Genre	Drama
Setting	the Siegfried residence,; a frontier railroad station

Siegfried is a play written in 1928 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, adapted from his own 1922 novel, Siegfried et le Limousin. The novel had launched Giraudoux's literary career, and the play based upon it established his reputation as a playwright. "It [Siegfried] marked the beginning of a productive, lifelong collaboration with actor-director Louis Jouvet, whom Giraudoux credits with transforming his literary plays into theater pieces."^[1]^[2]

^ Cody, Gabrielle H., ed. (2007). "Giraudoux, Jean (1882–1944)". The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Vol. 1. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 534. ISBN 978-0-231-14422-3. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
^ A noted Frenchman turns to playwriting, New York Times, May 20, 1928, pg. 101

[Columbia-1] Cody, Gabrielle H., ed. (2007). "Giraudoux, Jean (1882–1944)". The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Vol. 1. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 534. ISBN 978-0-231-14422-3. Retrieved 7 April 2012.

[times-2] A noted Frenchman turns to playwriting, New York Times, May 20, 1928, pg. 101

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