French theater today: Traditions and achievements -- Theaters, dictators, and actors -- Giraudoux -- Cocteau -- Montherlant -- Anouilh -- Claudel -- The problem of a religious theater: Bernanos and Mauriac -- Gide -- Sartre -- Camus -- Green -- The little theater -- Artaud -- Beckett -- Genet -- Adamov -- Ionesco -- Schehade -- Moliere today -- Mallarme and the aesthetics of the theater -- The French theater and the concept of communion