Antigone | Style

Theatricalism
Through the words of one of his characters, Anouilh explains his theory of theater: ‘‘Naturalness and truth in the theater, my dear, are the most unnatural thing in the world. Don’t think that it suffices to find the precise tone of real life. . . . Life is very pretty, but it has no form. The object of art is precisely to give it one, and through all possible artifices to create something that is truer than truth.’’

In this way Anouilh rejected dramatic naturalism, which seeks to present a realistic representation of life through sparse...


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