by Jean Anouilh · Methuen Drama · tapa dura · ISBN 9780413413109
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«The Lark» is the play by Jean Anouilh, translated into English by Christopher Fry, published by Methuen Drama in hardcover (103 pages).
The drama unfolds during the trial of Joan of Arc, as she recalls the voices that drove her to fight against the English. The play breaks the temporal sequence and alternates the historical view with the personal, showing how the judges unwittingly create a martyr who becomes a symbol of faith and courage.
The original French play «L'Alouette» was published in 1953; this English translation, by Christopher Fry, belongs to the Modern Plays collection.
For theatre and literature students and for those interested in the history of Joan of Arc.
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.
