Maurice Valency was educated in New York City, getting a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1923 at City College, and at Columbia University getting a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1927 (Valency was a member of the New York bar), and a Ph.D. in 1938.
In 1936 he married the artist Janet Cornell; they remained married for 60 years until Valency's death in New York City at the age of 93.
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Valency was a professor of comparative literature at Columbia and also taught dramatic literature at Juilliard School and at Brooklyn College.[ He spoke seven languages.][
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Awards
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New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best foreign play, 1949, for his adaptation of The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux
[New York Drama Critics' Circle, Best Foreign Play]
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New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best foreign play, 1954, for his adaptation of Ondine by Jean Giraudoux
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New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best foreign play, 1959, for his adaptation of The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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Tony Award nomination for Best Play, 1959, for his adaptation of The Visit
[Tony Award for Best Play, 1950s]
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Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1958
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Guggenheim Fellowship, 1960
[ The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]
Works
Adaptations
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The Madwoman of Chaillot (Jean Giraudoux), Pub: Random House, New York, 1947, OCLC Num: 639892557
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(Jean Giraudoux), Pub: Random House, New York, 1950, OCLC Num: 818215
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(Jean Giraudoux), Pub: Samuel French, New York, 1956, OCLC Num: 2070415
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The Queen's Gambit: a romantic comedy in three acts (Eugène Scribe), Pub: Samuel French, New York, 1956, OCLC Num:: 504510488
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Four plays: The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Apollo of Bellac, The Enchanted, Ondine, adapted, and with an introduction by Maurice Valency (Jean Giraudoux), Pub: Hill and Wang, New York, 1958, OCLC Num: 70459302
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(Friedrich Dürrenmatt), Pub: Random House, New York, 1958, OCLC Num: 1379852
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Feathertop, Pub: Dramatists Play Service, New York, 1998
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La Périchole (opera libretto), The American University Theatre, 1970, OCLC Num: 690595158
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The Reluctant King (opera libretto)
Original works
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The palace of pleasure: an anthology of the novella (with Henry Levtow), Pub: Capricorn Books, New York, 1960, OCLC Num: 296836
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In praise of love: an introduction to the love-poetry of the Renaissance, Pub: Macmillan, New York, 1958, OCLC Num: 313778
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The Thracian horses, Pub: Dramatists Play Service, New York, 1963, OCLC Num: 2684110
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The flower and the castle: an introduction to modern drama, Pub: Macmillan, New York, 1963, OCLC Num: 330053
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The breaking string: the plays of Anton Chekhov, Pub: Oxford University Press, New York, 1966, OCLC Num: 712186
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The cart and the trumpet: the plays of George Bernard Shaw, Pub: Oxford University Press, New York, 1973, OCLC Num: 627998
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Savonarola (play), 1974
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Regarding Electra: a play in one or two acts, Pub: Dramatists Play Service, New York, 1976, OCLC Num: 2918272
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Conversation with a sphinx: a play in one act, Pub: Dramatists Play Service, New York, 1980, OCLC Num: 6925360
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The end of the world: an introduction to contemporary drama, Pub: Oxford University Press, New York, 1980, OCLC Num: 5051656
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Ashby: a novel, Pub: Schocken Books, New York, 1984,
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Julie: a novel, Pub: New Amsterdam, New York, 1989,
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Tragedy, Pub: New York: New Amsterdam, 1991,
Television plays
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1951: Battleship Bismarck CBS-TV
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1953: Toine (Omnibus), CBS-TV
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1953: The Man without a Country (Omnibus), CBS-TV
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1954: The Apollo of Bellac (Omnibus), CBS-TV
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1955: She Stoops to Conquer (Omnibus), CBS-TV
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1956: The Virtuous Island (for Omnibus), ABC-TV
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1957: The Second Stranger (General Electric Theater), CBS-TV
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1957: Feathertop (General Electric Theatre), CBS-TV (adaptation of story by Nathaniel Hawthorne)
[Hawthorne, Nathaniel, adapted by Maurice Valency, "Feathertop," in Fifteen American One-Act Plays, Paul Kozelka, ed., New York: Washington Square Press, 1961.]
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