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A selection of the most enduring work of one of this century's best-known French playwrights Jean Anouilh (1910-87) along with Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, was at the forefront of the post-war generation of playwrights in Paris. In England his plays were championed by Peter Brook. Antigone is a response to the German occupation of France and established his popularity in 1944 (the Germans ironically, thought that it was a pro-Nazi in its portrayal of King Creon and thus allowed its production); Poor Bitos, Anouilh's angriest play explores the act of judicial murder and The Lark is a version of the Joan of Arc story. All three plays show his fondness for reworking myth, history and legend. Meanwhile Leocadia, about an opera singer who dies after a three day love affair with a prince and The Waltz of the Toreadors, about a general whose mistress attempts to prove his wife's infidelity, represent another talent - for ironic, modern comedy. Anouilh is a poet but not a poet of words, he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of players-performing. (Peter Brook)Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-139780413140302
eBay Product ID (ePID)90135165
Product Key Features
Book TitleAnouilh Plays: 1: Antigone; Leocadia; the Waltz of the Toreasors; the Lark; Poor Bitos
AuthorJean Anouilh
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicPlays
Publication Year1987
Dimensions
Item Height178mm
Item Width111mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJean Anouilh
Series TitleWorld Classics
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom