Antigone | Jean Anouilh: The Revival of Tragedy
In the following excerpt, the author examines a number of Anouilh’s plays, assessing the playwright’s facility with the tragedy genre.
Jean Anouilh (b. 1910) is often considered the
leading French dramatist of the postwar generation,
even though his reputation is only a dozen or so
years old. It was under the peculiar conditions of the
Occupation that his drama first attracted widespread
public attention; Antigone (1942) was interpreted,
as it was probably intended, as a thinly-veiled
allegory of France under the Vichy regime. In
America, where his work has been available since
1945, he is still relatively little known. Antigone is
occasionally played in this...
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