The Lesson (Ionesco)

The Lesson (Ionesco)

The Lesson (Ionesco)

The Lesson (Ionesco)

The Lesson (Ionesco)

Overview

An elderly professor and his young female student experience what must certainly be the most remarkable and bizarre lesson in the history of pedagogy. It ends with murder.

Published in The Bald Soprano and Other Plays.

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Eugene Ionesco

(born Nov. 26, 1909, Slatina, Rom.died March 28, 1994, Paris, France) was a Romanian-born French playwright. He studied in Bucharest and Paris, where he lived from 1945. His first one-act antiplay, The Bald Soprano (1950), inspired a revolution in dramatic techniques and help ...
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Donald M. Allen

Donald M. Allen was an influential editor, publisher, and translator of contemporary American literature. He is perhaps best known for his project The New American Poetry 1945-1960, among the several important anthologies of contemporary American innovative writing he made av ...
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