Maurice Valency
Maurice Valency is Professor Emeritus of Columbia University, where he held the Brander Matthews Chair of Drama. For some fifteen years he was head of the Academic Department of the Julliard School, where he presided over the feast of reason and the flow of soul. A practical man of the theater-playwright for the stage (he translated, adapted, and collaborated in the production of two great Broadway successes, Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot and Durrenmatt's The Visit) and for television,...See more
Maurice Valency is Professor Emeritus of Columbia University, where he held the Brander Matthews Chair of Drama. For some fifteen years he was head of the Academic Department of the Julliard School, where he presided over the feast of reason and the flow of soul. A practical man of the theater-playwright for the stage (he translated, adapted, and collaborated in the production of two great Broadway successes, Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot and Durrenmatt's The Visit) and for television, and the author of operas, he is also a most distinguished historian and critic of modern drama, having published remarkable studies of Chekhov, Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw, and a magnum opus on the entire range of symbolism in the theater, entitled The End of the World. See less