Antigone | Anouilh’s Antigone: An Interpretation
In the following essay, the author discusses the Truth in tragedy and compares Anouilh’s Antigone to Sophocles’s Antigone.
‘‘When Jean Anouilh turns historian we can take it
that truth will be revealed in the light of the emotions—
lightly, wittily revealed, in brilliant flashes.
But truth is no less true because it comes as a jest in a
jewelled sentence.’’ (Caryl Brahmns, in a review of
Beckett’s Plays and Players, August, 1961.)
‘‘With Anouilh now firmly entrenched as purveyor
of fancy goods to the entertainment hunters, it
is hard to credit that, not so long ago, he was classed
as a rebel . . . [Anouilh was] never a major...
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