by Jean Anouilh · Berg 3PL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780413140302
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«Anouilh Plays: One» is a collection of plays by French dramatist Jean Anouilh, published by Berg 3PL in paperback (448 pages, in English).
The volume brings together five plays showing two sides of the author: the reworking of myths, history and legends in «Antigone», «Poor Bitos» and «The Lark» (a version of the story of Joan of Arc), and the ironic, modern comedy of «Léocadia» and «The Waltz of the Toreadors». Includes translations by Barbara Bray, Christopher Fry, Lucienne Hill and Timberlake Wertenbaker.
First volume in the World Dramatists Series, published in 1987 and introduced by Ned Chaillet.
For theatre readers, students of dramatic literature and followers of twentieth-century European theatre.
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 production of Sophocles' Antigone, which, though performed without objection by censors, was nevertheless seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. His plays are less experimental than those of his contemporaries, having clearly organized plot and eloquent dialogue. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise.
