An Analysis of all the Plays and Fragmentary Works in Jean-Paul Sartre’s Théâtre complet is the first volume to propose a critical analysis of all of Jean-Paul Sartre’s plays as published in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 2005.

Jean-Paul Sartre. Playwright. Introduction Jean-Paul Sartre. Playwright. Introduction1 Bariona: Sartre’s First Play Features a Jewish Village Chief Who Saves the Christ Child at His Own Peril 2 The Flies and the Vichy Regime: A Bloody Farce 3 No Exit or Bringing the Dead Back to Life 4 Sartre’s Story “The Wall”, His Play The Victors, and Kant’s Moral Principle: ”It Is A Duty to Tell the Truth” in a Philosophical, Literary, and Political Context5 Sartre’s Play The Victors Seen in the Light of the Scenario Resistance, Its Preface: “A Film for the Post-War Period” and The Roads to Freedom IV: The Last Chance. Collaboration, Torture, and Commitment. 6 The Changing Fate of “the Modern Woman”: Sartre’s The Respectful Prostitute and Camus’s Stage Adaptation Réquiem pour une nonne in the Context of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, and Faulkner’s novels Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun7 Dirty Hands and the Unspoken Truth 8 The Devil and the Good Lord – Demystifying Feudalism, God, and the Good Lord9 Kean: From Resentment of the Aristocracy to an Appreciation of Meritocracy 10 Nekrassov – Anti-communist Capers in a pièce à clefs: Sartre Takes Aim at Beckett and Camus, Rivals the Marx Brothers and the Keystone Copes, and Pokes Fun at His Own Philosophy 11 Collusion: The Skeleton in the Closet in The Condemned of Altona12 The Trojan Women and the Theater of Commitment 13 A Discussion of Sartre’s Theatrical Project Entitled Exercising Damage Control and the Question of Suicide, Psychoanalysis, and Other Themes14 Recurring Themes and Techniques in Sartre’s Theatrical Project Le Pari (The Wager)