Free US delivery on orders $35 or over
This product is usually dispatched within 3 days
Free US delivery on orders $35 or over
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)
| Published | Dec 10 1987 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 448 |
| ISBN | 9780413140302 |
| Imprint | Methuen Drama |
| Dimensions | 7 x 4 inches |
| Series | World Classics |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
