Bacchus (play)
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Bacchus (play)
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Bacchus is a 1951 play written by French dramatist Jean Cocteau. His last full-length play, it is set in a small German town in 1523, which is holding a Bacchic carnival. As part of the festivities, the village idiot is declared king for a week, and he suddenly becomes rational "and preaches an anarchic message of love and freedom, which results in his being sentenced to burn at the stake." It was opened in Théâtre Marigny in December 1951. A few days later François Mauriac attacked the play in
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