Henry Bataille

For the 19th-century soldier Henri Jules Bataille, see Henri Jules Bataille.

Félix-Henri "Henry" Bataille (1872–1922) was a French poet, playwright. engraver and lithographer, popular during the early 20th century.^[1][2]

Henry Bataille
Henry Bataille in 1911
Born	Félix-Henri Bataille (1872-04-04)4 April 1872 Nîmes, French Third Republic
Died	2 March 1922(1922-03-02) (aged 49) Rueil-Malmaison, Yvelines, French Third Republic
Education	École des Beaux-Arts Académie Julian
Occupations	Poet playwright engraver lithographer
Known for	French dramatist, poet.

Biography

Bataille's parents died when he was young.^[3] He attended the École des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian^[4] to study painting, but started writing when he was 14. Henry wrote plays and poems, but after the success of his second play, La Lépreuse, he became a playwright exclusively. Bataille's early works explored the effects of passion on human motivation and how stifling the social conventions of the times could be. For example, Maman Colibri, is about a middle-aged woman's affair with a younger man. Later, Bataille would gravitate towards the theatre of ideas and social drama.

Bataille was also a theorist of subconscious motivation. While he did not use his theories in most of his own works, he influenced later playwrights such as Jean-Jacques Bernard and the "school of silence".

Works

• La Belle au bois dormant, 1894
• La Chambre blanche (poetry), 1895
• La Lépreuse, 1896
• L'Enchantement, 1900
• Le Masque, 1902
• Maman Colibri (Mother Colibri), 1904
• La Marche nupitale, 1905
• Poliche, 1906
• La Femme nue, 1908
• Le Scandale, 1909
• La Vierge folle (The Foolish Virgin), 1910
• L'Enfant de l'amour, 1911
• Le Phalène, 1913
• L'Amazone, 1916
• La divine tragédie (poetry), 1917
• L'Animateur, 1920
• L'Homme à la rose, 1920
• La Tendresse, 1921
• La Possession, 1921
• La Chair humaine (Human Flesh), 1922

Filmography

• The Naked Truth, directed by Carmine Gallone (Italy, 1914, based on the play La Femme nue)
• The Wedding March, directed by Carmine Gallone (Italy, 1915, based on the play La Marche nupitale)
• La falena, directed by Carmine Gallone (Italy, 1916, based on the play Le Phalène)
• L'Enfant de l'amour, directed by Emilio Ghione (Italy, 1916, based on the play L'Enfant de l'amour)
• Maman Colibri, directed by Alfredo De Antoni (Italy, 1918, based on the play Maman Colibri)
• Le Scandale, directed by Jacques de Baroncelli (France, 1918, based on the play Le Scandale)
• Incantesimo, directed by Ugo Gracci (Italy, 1919, based on the play L'Enchantement)
• La vergine folle, directed by Gennaro Righelli (Italy, 1920, based on the play La Vierge folle)
• La maschera, directed by Ivo Illuminati (Italy, 1921, based on the play Le Masque)
• The Nude Woman, directed by Roberto Roberti (Italy, 1922, based on the play La Femme nue)
• The Scandal, directed by Arthur Rooke (UK, 1923, based on the play Le Scandale)
• The Nude Woman, directed by Léonce Perret (France, 1926, based on the play La Femme nue)
• La Vierge folle, directed by Luitz-Morat (France, 1929, based on the play La Vierge folle)
• The Wedding March, directed by André Hugon (France, 1929, based on the play La Marche nupitale)
• La Possession, directed by Léonce Perret (France, 1929, based on the play La Possession)
• Der Narr seiner Liebe, directed by Olga Chekhova (Germany, 1929, based on the play Poliche)
• Maman Colibri, directed by Julien Duvivier (France, 1929, based on the play Maman Colibri)
• L'Enfant de l'amour, directed by Marcel L'Herbier (France, 1930, based on the play L'Enfant de l'amour)
• La Tendresse, directed by André Hugon (France, 1930, based on the play La Tendresse)
  • Zärtlichkeit, directed by Richard Löwenbein (Germany, 1930, based on the play La Tendresse)
• The Nude Woman, directed by Jean-Paul Paulin (France, 1932, based on the play La Femme nue)
• Le Scandale, directed by Marcel L'Herbier (France, 1934, based on the play Le Scandale)
• Poliche, directed by Abel Gance (France, 1934, based on the play Poliche)
• The Private Life of Don Juan, directed by Alexander Korda (UK, 1934, based on the play L'Homme à la rose)
• La Marche nupitale, directed by Mario Bonnard (France, 1935, based on the play La Marche nupitale)
  • The Wedding March, directed by Mario Bonnard (Italy, 1935, based on the play La Marche nupitale)
• Maman Colibri, directed by Jean Dréville (France, 1937, based on the play Maman Colibri)
• Second Youth, directed by Michał Waszyński (Poland, 1938, based on the play Maman Colibri)
• La Vierge folle, directed by Henri Diamant-Berger (France, 1938, based on the play La Vierge folle)
• Imprudencia, directed by Julián Soler (Mexico, 1944, based on the play Le Scandale)
• L'Enfant de l'amour, directed by Jean Stelli (France, 1944, based on the play L'Enfant de l'amour)
• La Femme nue, directed by André Berthomieu (France, 1949, based on the play La Femme nue)