by Jean Anouilh · Methuen · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780413695406
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«Antigone» is the play by Jean Anouilh published in paperback by Methuen (72 pages, in English).
Play by Jean Anouilh based on Sophocles' tragedy and premiered in Paris in 1942, during the occupation of France. It stages the confrontation between Antigone and her uncle Creon, king of Thebes, and reflects on disobedience, morality, justice and resistance against authoritarian power.
Methuen Drama student edition: translation by Barbara Bray and commentary and notes by Ted Freeman.
Aimed at literature and theatre students, with critical apparatus for studying the work.
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.
