Antigone | Critical Review of Anouilh's Work
Noted drama critic Krutch assesses a 1946 Broadway production of Anouilh’s Antigone, examining the parallels between the story and the German occupation of Paris, France, during the play’s initial run.
Antigone is adapted from the adaptation made by
Jean Anouilh, played in Paris during the occupation,
and more or less put over on the German censors.
Though acted in modern costume, the scene was left
in ancient Greece, and little essential change was
made in either the action or even the motives. In
Sophocles’s original the conflict is already that
between the individual and the state, or, more
precisely, between the laws decreed by a supreme
secular authority and those of God and of nature. To
transform it into a fable for...
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